76-16-103. Definitions. Unless the context requires otherwise, in this chapter, the following definitions apply:
     (1) "Animal unit" means one cow, one horse, or five sheep, 6 months old or over.
     (2) "Assessment" means a special levy imposed on permittee members by the state district to raise funds for specific purposes as provided in 76-16-323(1). The term does not include fees.
     (3) "Commensurate property" means land that is privately owned or controlled and that is not range.
     (4) "Department" means the department of natural resources and conservation provided for in Title 2, chapter 15, part 33.
     (5) "Dependent commensurate property" is commensurate property that:
     (a) requires the use of range in connection with it to maintain its proper use;
     (b) produces or whose owner furnishes as part of the owner's past customary practice the proper feed necessary to maintain livestock during the time other than the established grazing period on the range; and
     (c) has been used in connection with the range for a period of any 3 years or for any 2 consecutive years in the 5-year period immediately preceding June 28, 1934, or in the case of districts organized after March 15, 1945, for a 5-year period immediately preceding the date of organization of the districts.
     (6) "Grazing preference" is a right to obtain a grazing permit from a state district.
     (7) "Permits" are evidence of grazing privileges granted by state districts.
     (8) "Person" means a natural person or persons, unincorporated associations, partnerships, corporations, and governmental departments or agencies.
     (9) "Range" is the land within a grazing district upon which grazing permits are granted to maintain livestock through the established grazing period.
     (10) "State district" means a nonprofit cooperative organization incorporated under this chapter and its board of directors. The term includes all lands owned or controlled by the state district or its members.

     History: En. Sec. 2, Ch. 208, L. 1939; amd. Sec. 1, Ch. 199, L. 1945; amd. Sec. 36, Ch. 253, L. 1974; R.C.M. 1947, 46-2302(part); amd. Sec. 299, Ch. 418, L. 1995; amd. Sec. 2, Ch. 244, L. 1997.