2019 Montana Code Annotated
Title 60. Highways and Transportation
Chapter 4. Acquisition and Disposition of Property
Part 4. Relocation of Utilities
60-4-403. Relocation -- costs
60-4-403. Relocation -- costs. (1) Except as provided in subsections (2) and (3), 75% of all costs of relocation, dismantling, and removal must be paid by the department as a cost of commission-designated highway systems construction.
(2) The department shall pay for the entire cost of relocating a publicly owned water or sewer facility with 500 or fewer service connectors under the following conditions:
(a) the facility has had 500 or fewer subscribers during the entire year before the letting of the project contract; and
(b) the relocation is the result of state highway or commission-designated highway system construction.
(3) The department shall pay for 85% of all costs of relocating a publicly owned water or sewer facility with more than 500 but fewer than 1,000 service connectors, subject to the following conditions:
(a) the facility had more than 500 but fewer than 1,000 subscribers during the entire year before the letting of the project contract; and
(b) the relocation is the result of state highway or commission-designated highway system construction.
History: En. Sec. 4-115, Ch. 197, L. 1965; amd. Sec. 83, Ch. 316, L. 1974; R.C.M. 1947, 32-2415; amd. Sec. 2, Ch. 231, L. 1995; amd. Sec. 3, Ch. 324, L. 1997; amd. Sec. 22, Ch. 299, L. 2019.
