2005 Montana Code Annotated - 15-23-101 — Properties centrally assessed.

     15-23-101. Properties centrally assessed. The department shall centrally assess each year:
     (1) the railroad transportation property of railroads and railroad car companies operating in more than one county in the state or more than one state;
     (2) property owned by a corporation or other person operating a single and continuous property operated in more than one county or more than one state, including but not limited to telegraph, telephone, microwave, and electric power or transmission lines; natural gas or oil pipelines; canals, ditches, flumes, or like properties and including, if congress passes legislation that allows the state to tax property owned by an agency created by congress to transmit or distribute electrical energy, property constructed, owned, or operated by a public agency created by congress to transmit or distribute electrical energy produced at privately owned generating facilities, not including rural electric cooperatives;
     (3) all property of scheduled airlines;
     (4) the net proceeds of mines, except bentonite mines;
     (5) the gross proceeds of coal mines; and
     (6) property described in subsections (1) and (2) that is subject to the provisions of Title 15, chapter 24, part 12.

     History: En. 84-7801 by Sec. 1, Ch. 98, L. 1977; R.C.M. 1947, 84-7801; amd. Sec. 4, Ch. 686, L. 1979; amd. Sec. 3, Ch. 478, L. 1981; amd. Sec. 4, Ch. 683, L. 1983; amd. Sec. 2, Ch. 10, Sp. L. July 1992; amd. Sec. 61, Ch. 42, L. 1997; amd. Sec. 2, Ch. 531, L. 1999; amd. Sec. 8, Ch. 583, L. 1999; amd. Sec. 18, Ch. 7, L. 2001; amd. Sec. 14, Ch. 559, L. 2005.