20-6-106. Definitions, MCA

Montana Code Annotated 2025

TITLE 20. EDUCATION

CHAPTER 6. SCHOOL DISTRICTS

Part 1. School Districts -- General Provisions

Definitions

20-6-106. Definitions. For the purposes of 20-6-105 through 20-6-109, the following definitions apply:

(1) "Advisory capacity" has the same meaning as provided in 2-15-102.

(2) (a) "District operational levies" means property tax levies imposed on the property of a school district in support of a school district's budgeted operations. The term includes levies for all school district budgeted funds except the debt service fund.

(b) The term does not include countywide school levies.

(3) "Isolated pupil" means a pupil who is enrolled and admitted in a nonresident district contiguous to the pupil's resident school district under conditions specified in 20-5-321 and who is unable to access onsite services of a resident school district.

(4) "Reconciliation payment" means payment provided for in 20-6-107 from a resident school district to reimburse a school district of attendance for educating an isolated pupil of the resident school district.

(5) "Resident school district" means the school district where an isolated pupil maintains legal residence as defined in 1-1-215.

(6) "School district" means a school district created under Title 20, chapter 6.

(7) "School district of attendance" means the school district where the isolated pupil is enrolled, admitted, and receiving onsite instruction.

(8) "Unable to access onsite services of a resident school district" means a case in which a pupil resides in a location in which, because of geographic conditions between the pupil's home and the school that the pupil would attend within the resident school district, it is impractical to access onsite programs in the resident school district, based on a travel time of more than 60 minutes under normal weather conditions over a publicly owned and maintained road using the shortest passable route while complying with all applicable speed limits to the school the pupil would attend in the resident school district.

History: En. Sec. 1, Ch. 735, L. 2025.