Montana Code Annotated 2023

TITLE 85. WATER USE

CHAPTER 7. IRRIGATION DISTRICTS

Part 22. Miscellaneous Provisions

Written Consent Of Owners -- Acknowledgment And Recording Requirements

85-7-2204. Written consent of owners -- acknowledgment and recording requirements. Whenever any written consent is required to be given by or obtained from the owner or owners of any lands by any of the provisions of any of the sections of this chapter, such written consent must be acknowledged before some officer authorized to take acknowledgments and shall be filed and recorded in the office of the clerk and recorder of the county in which such lands are situated, and a certified copy thereof must be filed in the office of the clerk of the court in the county in which the proceedings for the organization of such district were instituted. The provisions of this section shall not apply to any petition provided for by this chapter, and all such petitions may be signed in any number of original parts with the same effect as though all signatures had been affixed to one instrument.

History: En. Sec. 64, Ch. 146, L. 1909; re-en. Sec. 7259, R.C.M. 1921; re-en. Sec. 7259, R.C.M. 1935; R.C.M. 1947, 89-2106; amd. Sec. 6, Ch. 326, L. 1979.