2005 Montana Code Annotated - 18-2-101 — Definitions of building, costs, and construction.

     18-2-101. Definitions of building, costs, and construction. In part 1 of this chapter, with the exception of 18-2-104, 18-2-107, 18-2-113, 18-2-114, 18-2-122, and 18-2-123:
     (1) "building" includes a building, facility, or structure:
     (a) constructed or purchased wholly or in part with state money;
     (b) at a state institution;
     (c) owned or to be owned by a state agency, including the department of transportation; or
     (d) constructed for the use or benefit of the state with federal or private money as provided in 18-2-102(2)(d);
     (2) "building" does not include a building, facility, or structure:
     (a) owned or to be owned by a county, city, town, school district, or special improvement district;
     (b) used as a component part of an environmental remediation or abandoned mine land reclamation project, a highway, or a water conservation project, unless the building will require a continuing state general fund financial obligation after the environmental remediation or abandoned mine land reclamation project is completed; or
     (c) leased or to be leased by a state agency;
     (3) "construction" includes the construction, alteration, repair, maintenance, and remodeling of a building and the equipping and furnishing of a building during construction, alteration, repair, maintenance, and remodeling;
     (4) "costs" means those expenses defined in 17-5-801.

     History: En. Sec. 14, Ch. 271, L. 1963; amd. Sec. 1, Ch. 24, L. 1973; amd. Sec. 81, Ch. 326, L. 1974; R.C.M. 1947, 82-3314; amd. Sec. 4, Ch. 388, L. 1979; amd. Sec. 1, Ch. 67, L. 1981; amd. Sec. 1, Ch. 491, L. 1983; amd. Sec. 1, Ch. 7, L. 1985; amd. Sec. 5, Ch. 372, L. 1985; amd. Sec. 3, Ch. 512, L. 1991; amd. Sec. 1, Ch. 241, L. 1995; amd. Sec. 1, Ch. 392, L. 1997; amd. Sec. 2, Ch. 470, L. 1999; amd. Sec. 6, Ch. 374, L. 2005.