77-1-102. Ownership of certain islands and abandoned riverbeds. All lands lying and being in and forming a part of the abandoned bed of any navigable stream or lake in this state and lying between the meandered lines of such stream or lake as the same are shown by the United States survey thereof and all islands existing in the navigable streams or lakes in this state which have not been surveyed by the government of the United States and all lands which at any time in the past comprised such an island or any part thereof, except such lands as are occupied by and belong to the adjacent landowners as accretions, belong to the state of Montana to be held in trust for the benefit of the public schools of the state.

     History: En. Sec. 1, Ch. 36, L. 1937; R.C.M. 1947, 81-2301.