23-2-652. Definitions. As used in 23-2-651 through 23-2-655, the following definitions apply:
     (1) "Snowmobile" means a vehicle defined in 23-2-601(10).
     (2) "Snowmobile area" means those areas designated as snowmobile trails or areas open to the operation of snowmobiles.
     (3) "Snowmobile area operators" means those persons responsible for the maintenance of snowmobile trails and for the designation of open areas or those persons providing rental snowmobile equipment. Operators may include but are not limited to the United States forest service, the Montana department of fish, wildlife, and parks, the Montana snowmobile association, individual snowmobile clubs, landowners or their tenants, persons who offer snowmobile equipment for rent, and private trail grooming contractors.
     (4) "Snowmobiler" means any person operating or riding a snowmobile.

     History: En. Sec. 2, Ch. 440, L. 1987; amd. Sec. 2, Ch. 145, L. 1999.