2005 Montana Code Annotated - 15-23-301 — Officers of certain public utility companies to furnish statement to department.

     15-23-301. Officers of certain public utility companies to furnish statement to department. The president, secretary, or managing agent or such other officer as the department of revenue may designate of any corporation and each person or association of persons owning or operating a telegraph, telephone, microwave, electric power, or transmission line, natural gas pipeline, oil pipeline, canal, ditch, flume, or other property, other than real estate not included in right-of-way, and which constitute a single and continuous property throughout more than one county or state, must each year furnish the department a statement, signed and sworn to by one of such officers or by the person or one of the persons forming such association, showing in detail for the year ending on December 31 immediately preceding as follows:
     (1) the whole number of miles of said property in the state and, where the property is partly out of the state, the whole number of miles without the state and the whole number of miles within the state owned or operated by such corporation, person, or association;
     (2) the total value of the entire property and plant, both within and without the state, and the total value of that portion of the same within the state;
     (3) a complete description of the property within the state, giving the points of entrance into and the points of exit from the state and the points of entrance into and the points of exit from each county, with a statement of the total number of miles in each county in the state;
     (4) such other information regarding such property as may be required by the department.

     History: En. Sec. 1, Ch. 49, L. 1919; re-en. Sec. 2138, R.C.M. 1921; re-en. Sec. 2138, R.C.M. 1935; amd. Sec. 1, Ch. 17, L. 1939; amd. Sec. 25, Ch. 516, L. 1973; amd. Sec. 1, Ch. 50, L. 1974; amd. Sec. 1, Ch. 210, L. 1975; amd. Sec. 12, Ch. 98, L. 1977; R.C.M. 1947, 84-901.