7-4-2201. General qualifications for county office. A person is not eligible for a county office who at the time of election is not:
     (1) of the voting age required by the Montana constitution;
     (2) a citizen of the state; and
     (3) (a) an elector of the county in which the duties of the office are to be exercised; or
     (b) in the case of an office consolidated between two or more counties, an elector in one of the counties in which the duties of the office are to be exercised.

     History: En. Sec. 4310, Pol. C. 1895; re-en. Sec. 2955, Rev. C. 1907; re-en. Sec. 4723, R.C.M. 1921; Cal. Pol. C. Sec. 4101; re-en. Sec. 4723, R.C.M. 1935; amd. Sec. 1, Ch. 423, L. 1971; R.C.M. 1947, 16-2401; amd. Sec. 1, Ch. 60, L. 1999.