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2022 Montana Code Annotated
Title 7. Local Government
Chapter 3. Alternative Forms of Local Government
Part 44. Municipal Commission-Manager Government Continued
7-3-4464. Department of public safety

Universal Citation:
MT Code § 7-3-4464 (2022)
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7-3-4464. Department of public safety. (1) Subject to the supervision and control of the city manager in all matters, the director of public safety is the executive head of the division of police and fire. The director is also the chief administrative authority in all matters affecting the inspection and regulation of the erection, maintenance, repair, and occupancy of buildings as prescribed by the commission or established by the general law of Montana. The director is also charged with the enforcement of all laws and ordinances relating to weights and measures.

(2) This section does not affect, impair, restrict, or repeal any provisions of general law authorizing the levying of taxes to provide for firefighters, police, and sanitary police pension funds and to create and perpetuate boards of trustees for the administration of those funds.

History: En. Sec. 67, Ch. 152, L. 1917; re-en. Sec. 5465, R.C.M. 1921; amd. Sec. 12, Ch. 31, L. 1923; amd. Sec. 1, Ch. 173, L. 1925; re-en. Sec. 5465, R.C.M. 1935; amd. Sec. 1, Ch. 150, L. 1947; amd. Sec. 3, Ch. 489, L. 1977; R.C.M. 1947, 11-3266(1), (6); amd. Sec. 399, Ch. 61, L. 2007.

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