1. MCA Contents
  2. TITLE 7
  3. CHAPTER 14
  4. Part 41
  5. 7-14-4101 Municipal authority to establish, alter, and maintain trafficways and public grounds

Montana Code Annotated 2023

TITLE 7. LOCAL GOVERNMENT

CHAPTER 14. TRANSPORTATION

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

Municipal Authority To Establish, Alter, And Maintain Trafficways And Public Grounds

7-14-4101. Municipal authority to establish, alter, and maintain trafficways and public grounds. (1) The city or town council has power to lay out, establish, open, alter, widen, extend, grade, pave, or otherwise improve streets, alleys, avenues, sidewalks, and public grounds and to vacate the same.

(2) The council has power to order any work provided in this code to be done upon the streets, alleys, or public places of a city or town.

History: (1)En. Subd. 6, Sec. 5039, R.C.M. 1921; amd. Sec. 1, Ch. 115, L. 1925; amd. Sec. 1, Ch. 20, L. 1927; re-en. Sec. 5039.5, R.C.M. 1935; Sec. 11-906, R.C.M. 1947; (2)En. Sec. 4879, Pol. C. 1895; re-en. Sec. 3365, Rev. C. 1907; re-en. Sec. 5223, R.C.M. 1921; re-en. Sec. 5223, R.C.M. 1935; Sec. 84-4736, R.C.M. 1947; R.C.M. 1947, 11-906(part), 84-4736.