7-14-4102. Regulation of trafficways and public grounds, MCA

Montana Code Annotated 2017

TITLE 7. LOCAL GOVERNMENT

CHAPTER 14. TRANSPORTATION

Part 41. General Provisions Related to Municipal Trafficways and Public Grounds

Regulation Of Trafficways And Public Grounds

7-14-4102. Regulation of trafficways and public grounds. The city or town council may:

(1) except as provided in 7-14-4116, regulate and prevent the use or obstruction of streets, sidewalks, and public grounds by signs, poles, wires, posting handbills or advertisements, or any obstruction;

(2) regulate and prohibit traffic and sales upon the streets, sidewalks, and public grounds;

(3) regulate or prohibit the fast driving of horses, animals, or vehicles within the city or town;

(4) provide for and regulate street crossings, curbs, and gutters;

(5) prevent horseracing or immoderate driving or riding in the streets of the city or town and regulate and provide for the hitching of all animals on the streets;

(6) regulate or prohibit coasting, skating, sliding, skateboarding, rollerblading, or tobogganing on the streets or alleys or other amusements dangerous or annoying to the inhabitants or having a tendency to frighten animals.

History: En. Subds. 8, 9, 10, 40, 41, Sec. 5039, R.C.M. 1921; amd. Sec. 1, Ch. 115, L. 1925; amd. Sec. 1, Ch. 20, L. 1927; re-en. Secs. 5039.7, 5039.8, 5039.9, 5039.39, 5039.40, R.C.M. 1935; R.C.M. 1947, 11-910, 11-911, 11-912, 11-942, 11-943; amd. Sec. 1, Ch. 287, L. 1995; amd. Sec. 3, Ch. 173, L. 2015.