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MT Code § 7-3-4415 (2021)
2021 Montana Code Annotated|Title 7. Local Government|Chapter 3. Alternative Forms of Local Government|Part 44. Municipal Commission-Manager Government Continued|7-3-4415. Prohibition on discrimination in employment

  7-3-4415. Prohibition on discrimination in employment. No person in the classified service or seeking admission thereto may be appointed, reduced, removed, or in any way favored or discriminated against because of political opinions or affiliations or because of race, color, creed, or religion.   History: En. Sec. 84, Ch. 152, L. 1917; re-en. Sec. 5482, R.C.M. 1921; re-en. Sec. 5482, R.C.M. 1935; amd. Sec. 1, Ch. 188, L. 1975; amd. Sec. 1, Ch. 38, L. 1977; R.C.M. 1947, 11-3283.
MT Code § 7-3-4416 (2021)
2021 Montana Code Annotated|Title 7. Local Government|Chapter 3. Alternative Forms of Local Government|Part 44. Municipal Commission-Manager Government Continued|7-3-4416. Violation of civil service provisions

  7-3-4416. Violation of civil service provisions. The board, subject to the approval of the commission, shall by ordinance determine the penalties for the violation of the civil service provisions of this part.   History: En. Sec. 85, Ch. 152, L. 1917; re-en. Sec. 5483, R.C.M. 1921; re-en. Sec. 5483, R.C.M. 1935; R.C.M. 1947, 11-3284.
MT Code § 7-3-4417 (2021)
2021 Montana Code Annotated|Title 7. Local Government|Chapter 3. Alternative Forms of Local Government|Part 44. Municipal Commission-Manager Government Continued|7-3-4417. Fixing compensation

  7-3-4417. Fixing compensation. (1) The commission shall fix, by annual salary ordinance, the salary or compensation of the city manager, the heads of the departments, and its own employees.   (2) The city manager shall fix the number and salaries or compensation of all other officers and employees.   (3) In cities where there is a civil service board as provided for in this part, the salary or compensation so fixed shall be uniform for like service in each grade of the service as the same shall be graded or classified by the city manager in accordance with the rules adopted by the civil service board. All such salaries and rates of pay shall be reported to the secretary of the civil service board.   History: En. Sec. 110, Ch. 152, L. 1917; re-en. Sec. 5507, R.C.M. 1921; amd. Sec. 18, Ch. 31, L. 1923; amd. Sec. 4, Ch. 173, L. 1925; re-en. Sec. 5507, R.C.M. 1935; R.C.M. 1947, 11-3323(part).
MT Code § 7-3-4418 (2021)
2021 Montana Code Annotated|Title 7. Local Government|Chapter 3. Alternative Forms of Local Government|Part 44. Municipal Commission-Manager Government Continued|7-3-4418. Power to establish eight-hour day

  7-3-4418. Power to establish eight-hour day. The commission shall have the power to provide by ordinance that on any public work carried on by the municipality, whether done by contract or otherwise, not to exceed 8 hours shall constitute a day's work.   History: En. Sec. 115, Ch. 152, L. 1917; re-en. Sec. 5512, R.C.M. 1921; re-en. Sec. 5512, R.C.M. 1935; R.C.M. 1947, 11-3328.
MT Code § 7-3-4419 (2021)
2021 Montana Code Annotated|Title 7. Local Government|Chapter 3. Alternative Forms of Local Government|Part 44. Municipal Commission-Manager Government Continued|7-3-4419. through 7-3-4430 reserved

  7-3-4419 through 7-3-4430 reserved.
MT Code § 7-3-4431 (2021)
2021 Montana Code Annotated|Title 7. Local Government|Chapter 3. Alternative Forms of Local Government|Part 44. Municipal Commission-Manager Government Continued|7-3-4431. Department of finance

  7-3-4431. Department of finance. (1) The duties of the director of finance include:   (a) the keeping and supervision of all accounts and the custody of all public money of the municipality;   (b) the purchase, storage, and distribution of supplies needed by the various departments;   (c) the making and collection of special assessments;   (d) the issuance of licenses;   (e) the collection of license fees and taxes; and   (f) other duties that the commission may by ordinance require.   (2) The director of finance shall install and have supervision over the accounts of all the departments and offices of the municipality. Whenever practicable the books of financial accounts must be kept in the office of the department of finance. The director shall require daily departmental reports of money receipts and the disposition of money and shall require of each department, in a form that may be prescribed, current financial and operating statements exhibiting each transaction and the cost of the transaction. Upon the death, resignation, removal, or expiration of the term of any officer, the director shall examine the accounts of that officer and report the findings to the city manager.   (3) The director of finance has charge of the preparation and certification of all special assessments for public improvements, the mailing of notices of the assessments to property owners and purchasers of property under contracts for deed and all other duties connected with the assessments, the collection of assessments that are payable directly to the municipality, and the preparation and certification of all unpaid assessments to the county treasurer for collection. The director shall issue all licenses and collect all license fees and shall deposit the fees into the treasury in the manner provided by ordinance.   (4) The director of finance is the custodian of all public money of the municipality and all other public money coming into the director's possession. The director shall keep and preserve the money in the place or places determined by ordinance or by the provisions of any applicable law. Except as otherwise provided in part 43 or this part, the director shall collect, receive, and disburse all public money of the municipality upon warrant and shall also receive and disburse all other public money coming into the director's possession pursuant to regulations that may be prescribed by the authorities having lawful control over the funds.   History: En. Sec. 68, Ch. 152, L. 1917; re-en. Sec. 5466, R.C.M. 1921; amd. Sec. 13, Ch. 31, L. 1923; re-en. Sec. 5466, R.C.M. 1935; R.C.M. 1947, 11-3267(1) thru (3), (5), (7); amd. Sec. 4, Ch. 526, L. 1983; amd. Sec. 391, Ch. 61, L. 2007.
MT Code § 7-3-4432 (2021)
2021 Montana Code Annotated|Title 7. Local Government|Chapter 3. Alternative Forms of Local Government|Part 44. Municipal Commission-Manager Government Continued|7-3-4432. Accounting procedures

  7-3-4432. Accounting procedures. Accounting procedures must be devised and maintained for the municipality that are adequate to record in detail all transactions affecting the acquisition, custodianship, and disposition of values, including cash receipts and disbursements. The accounting procedures must conform to the methods and standards provided for in 2-7-504 and Title 7, chapter 6, part 6. The recorded facts must be presented periodically to officials and to the public in summaries and analytical schedules in detailed support of the summaries that may be necessary to show the full effect of the transactions for each fiscal year upon the finances of the municipality and in relation to each department of the municipal government, including distinct summaries and schedules for each publicly owned and operated utility.   History: En. Sec. 68, Ch. 152, L. 1917; re-en. Sec. 5466, R.C.M. 1921; amd. Sec. 13, Ch. 31, L. 1923; re-en. Sec. 5466, R.C.M. 1935; R.C.M. 1947, 11-3267(4); amd. Sec. 43, Ch. 278, L. 2001.
MT Code § 7-3-4433 (2021)
2021 Montana Code Annotated|Title 7. Local Government|Chapter 3. Alternative Forms of Local Government|Part 44. Municipal Commission-Manager Government Continued|7-3-4433. Claims and issuance of warrants

  7-3-4433. Claims and issuance of warrants. A warrant for the payment of any claim may not be issued unless the claim is evidenced by a voucher approved by the head of the department for which the indebtedness was incurred and countersigned by the city manager. Before issuing a voucher, the supplies and materials delivered or work done must be inspected and certified to by the head of the proper department or office or by a person designated by the head of the department or office. The head of each department or office shall require proper time reports for all services rendered, to be certified by those having knowledge of the services, to serve as a basis for the preparation of payroll vouchers. Each director of a department and the director's surety are liable to the municipality for all loss or damage sustained by the municipality, by reason of the negligent or corrupt approval of any claim against the municipality in the director's department. Prior to the drawing of a warrant for the payment of any voucher or claim, the director of finance may cause an investigation or inspection to be made by a person designated by the director of finance and may summon persons and examine them under oath or affirmation, which oath or affirmation the director of finance may administer.   History: En. Sec. 68, Ch. 152, L. 1917; re-en. Sec. 5466, R.C.M. 1921; amd. Sec. 13, Ch. 31, L. 1923; re-en. Sec. 5466, R.C.M. 1935; R.C.M. 1947, 11-3267(6); amd. Sec. 392, Ch. 61, L. 2007.
MT Code § 7-3-4435 (2021)
2021 Montana Code Annotated|Title 7. Local Government|Chapter 3. Alternative Forms of Local Government|Part 44. Municipal Commission-Manager Government Continued|7-3-4435. Approval required for certain contracts

  7-3-4435. Approval required for certain contracts. No contract involving an expenditure of more than $250 for material or supplies shall be awarded except upon the approval of the city manager and the commission.   History: En. Sec. 71, Ch. 152, L. 1917; re-en. Sec. 5469, R.C.M. 1921; re-en. Sec. 5469, R.C.M. 1935; R.C.M. 1947, 11-3270.
MT Code § 7-3-4436 (2021)
2021 Montana Code Annotated|Title 7. Local Government|Chapter 3. Alternative Forms of Local Government|Part 44. Municipal Commission-Manager Government Continued|7-3-4436. Sinking fund trustees

  7-3-4436. Sinking fund trustees. (1) The members of the commission, the city manager, and the director of finance shall constitute the sinking fund trustees. The mayor shall be the president and the director of finance shall be the secretary of the trustees of the sinking fund.   (2) The trustees of the sinking fund shall manage and control the sinking fund in the manner provided by laws of Montana or by ordinance.   History: En. Sec. 69, Ch. 152, L. 1917; re-en. Sec. 5467, R.C.M. 1921; re-en. Sec. 5467, R.C.M. 1935; R.C.M. 1947, 11-3268.
MT Code § 7-3-4437 (2021)
2021 Montana Code Annotated|Title 7. Local Government|Chapter 3. Alternative Forms of Local Government|Part 44. Municipal Commission-Manager Government Continued|7-3-4437. through 7-3-4440 reserved

  7-3-4437 through 7-3-4440 reserved.
MT Code § 7-3-4441 (2021)
2021 Montana Code Annotated|Title 7. Local Government|Chapter 3. Alternative Forms of Local Government|Part 44. Municipal Commission-Manager Government Continued|7-3-4441. Department of public service

  7-3-4441. Department of public service. Subject to the control and supervision of the city manager in all matters, the director of public service shall:   (1) manage and have charge of:   (a) the construction, improvement, repair, and maintenance of streets, sidewalks, alleys, lanes, bridges, viaducts, and other public highways;   (b) sewers, drains, ditches, culverts, canals, streams, and watercourses; and   (c) boulevards, squares, and other public places and grounds belonging to the municipality or dedicated to public use, except parks and playgrounds;   (2) manage market houses, sewage disposal plants and farms, and all public utilities of the municipality; and   (3) have charge of:   (a) the enforcement of all obligations of privately owned or operated public utilities enforceable by the municipality;   (b) the making and preservation of all surveys, maps, plans, drawings, and estimates for public work;   (c) the cleaning, sprinkling, and lighting of streets and public places;   (d) the collection and disposal of waste; and   (e) the preservation of contracts, papers, plans, tools, and appliances belonging to the municipality and pertaining to the department.   History: En. Sec. 65, Ch. 152, L. 1917; re-en. Sec. 5463, R.C.M. 1921; re-en. Sec. 5463, R.C.M. 1935; R.C.M. 1947, 11-3264; amd. Sec. 394, Ch. 61, L. 2007.
MT Code § 7-3-4442 (2021)
2021 Montana Code Annotated|Title 7. Local Government|Chapter 3. Alternative Forms of Local Government|Part 44. Municipal Commission-Manager Government Continued|7-3-4442. Local improvements

  7-3-4442. Local improvements. (1) The commission shall have the power by ordinance to provide for:   (a) the construction, reconstruction, repair, and maintenance, by contract or directly by the employment of labor, of all things in the nature of local improvements; and   (b) the payment of any part of the cost of any such improvement by levying and collecting special assessments upon abutting, adjacent, and contiguous or other specially benefited property, as provided by general law.   (2) Whenever the payments for such improvements are to extend over a period of years and are to be paid for in installments, the proceedings and all things done in connection with such improvements are to be done in strict conformity with the provisions of parts 41 and 42 of chapter 12.   History: En. Sec. 87, Ch. 152, L. 1917; re-en. Sec. 5485, R.C.M. 1921; re-en. Sec. 5485, R.C.M. 1935; R.C.M. 1947, 11-3301.
MT Code § 7-3-4443 (2021)
2021 Montana Code Annotated|Title 7. Local Government|Chapter 3. Alternative Forms of Local Government|Part 44. Municipal Commission-Manager Government Continued|7-3-4443. Utility connections

  7-3-4443. Utility connections. (1) The director of public service may compel the making of sewer, water, gas, and other connections whenever, in view of the contemplated street improvements or as a sanitary regulation, sewer, water, gas, or other connections should in the director's judgment be constructed.   (2) The director shall cause written notice of the determination to be given to the owner of each lot or parcel of land to which connections are to be made. The notice must state the number and character of connections required. The notice must be served by a person designated by the director of public service, in the manner provided for the service of summons in civil actions. Nonresidents of the municipality or persons who cannot be found may be served by one publication of the notice in a daily newspaper of general circulation in the municipality if there is a newspaper and, if not, by one publication in a weekly newspaper. The notice must state the time within which the connections must be constructed, and if they are not constructed within the time, the work may be done by the municipality and the cost of the connections, together with a penalty of 5%, assessed against the lots and lands for which the connections are made. However, the city commission may in its discretion order and direct that the cost of making any connection by the municipality may be assessed without penalty and may be paid in annual installments over a period of not to exceed 8 years, together with interest on the cost at a rate not to exceed 6% a year payable annually on the deferred payments. The assessments must be certified and collected as other assessments for street improvements. The actual work of making the connections must be done under regulations that are provided for by ordinance.   History: En. Sec. 88, Ch. 152, L. 1917; re-en. Sec. 5486, R.C.M. 1921; re-en. Sec. 5486, R.C.M. 1935; amd. Sec. 1, Ch. 45, L. 1939; R.C.M. 1947, 11-3302; amd. Sec. 395, Ch. 61, L. 2007.
MT Code § 7-3-4444 (2021)
2021 Montana Code Annotated|Title 7. Local Government|Chapter 3. Alternative Forms of Local Government|Part 44. Municipal Commission-Manager Government Continued|7-3-4444. Supervision of plats

  7-3-4444. Supervision of plats. (1) The director of public service is the supervisor of plats of the municipality. The director shall see that the regulations governing the platting of all lands require all streets and alleys to be of proper width and to be coterminous with the adjoining streets and alleys and that all other regulations are conformed with. Whenever the director considers it expedient to plat any portion of the territory within the corporate limits in which the necessary or convenient streets and alleys have not already been accepted by the municipality so as to become public streets or alleys or when any person plats any land within the corporate limits or within 3 miles of those limits, the director shall, if the plats are in accordance with the regulations prescribed for plats, endorse the director's written approval on the plats.   (2) A plat subdividing lands within the corporate limits or within 3 miles of those limits may not be entitled to be recorded in the recorder's office of the county without the written approval endorsed on the plat.   History: En. Sec. 91, Ch. 152, L. 1917; re-en. Sec. 5489, R.C.M. 1921; re-en. Sec. 5489, R.C.M. 1935; R.C.M. 1947, 11-3305; amd. Sec. 396, Ch. 61, L. 2007.
MT Code § 7-3-4445 (2021)
2021 Montana Code Annotated|Title 7. Local Government|Chapter 3. Alternative Forms of Local Government|Part 44. Municipal Commission-Manager Government Continued|7-3-4445. Subdivided lands

  7-3-4445. Subdivided lands. Subdivisions in the municipality must conform to the provisions of Title 76, chapter 3.   History: En. Sec. 89, Ch. 152, L. 1917; re-en. Sec. 5487, R.C.M. 1921; amd. Sec. 16, Ch. 31, L. 1923; re-en. Sec. 5487, R.C.M. 1935; R.C.M. 1947, 11-3303; amd. Sec. 26, Ch. 262, L. 1979.
MT Code § 7-3-4446 (2021)
2021 Montana Code Annotated|Title 7. Local Government|Chapter 3. Alternative Forms of Local Government|Part 44. Municipal Commission-Manager Government Continued|7-3-4446. Acceptance of streets or alleys

  7-3-4446. Acceptance of streets or alleys. (1) No streets or alleys except those laid down on such plat and bearing the approval of the supervisor of plats, as hereinbefore provided, shall subsequently in any way be accepted as public streets or alleys by the municipality or shall any public funds be expended in the repair or improvement of streets or alleys subsequently laid out and not on such plat. This restriction shall not apply to a street or alley laid out by the municipality or to streets, alleys, or public grounds laid out on a plat by or with the approval of the supervisor of plats.   (2) No street or alley hereafter dedicated to public use by the proprietor of ground in the municipality shall be deemed a public street or alley or under the care or control of the commission unless the dedication be accepted and confirmed by ordinance passed for such purpose or unless the provisions hereof relating to subdivisions shall have been complied with.   History: (1)En. Sec. 92, Ch. 152, L. 1917; re-en. Sec. 5490, R.C.M. 1921; re-en. Sec. 5490, R.C.M. 1935; Sec. 11-3306, R.C.M. 1947; (2)En. Sec. 95, Ch. 152, L. 1917; re-en. Sec. 5493, R.C.M. 1921; re-en. Sec. 5493, R.C.M. 1935; Sec. 11-3309, R.C.M. 1947; R.C.M. 1947, 11-3306, 11-3309.
MT Code § 7-3-4447 (2021)
2021 Montana Code Annotated|Title 7. Local Government|Chapter 3. Alternative Forms of Local Government|Part 44. Municipal Commission-Manager Government Continued|7-3-4447. Supervision of public places

  7-3-4447. Supervision of public places. (1) The commission shall provide by ordinance for the care, supervision, control, and improvement of public highways, streets, avenues, alleys, sidewalks, public grounds, bridges, aqueducts, and viaducts within the municipality and shall cause them to be kept open, in repair, and free from nuisance.   (2) When it deems it necessary, the commission may cause any street, alley, or public highway to be opened, straightened, altered, diverted, narrowed, widened, or vacated.   History: (1)En. Sec. 93, Ch. 152, L. 1917; re-en. Sec. 5491, R.C.M. 1921; re-en. Sec. 5491, R.C.M. 1935; Sec. 11-3307, R.C.M. 1947; (2)En. Sec. 94, Ch. 152, L. 1917; re-en. Sec. 5492, R.C.M. 1921; re-en. Sec. 5492, R.C.M. 1935; Sec. 11-3308, R.C.M. 1947; R.C.M. 1947, 11-3307, 11-3308.
MT Code § 7-3-4448 (2021)
2021 Montana Code Annotated|Title 7. Local Government|Chapter 3. Alternative Forms of Local Government|Part 44. Municipal Commission-Manager Government Continued|7-3-4448. Vacating or changing name of street

  7-3-4448. Vacating or changing name of street. (1) The commission, in vacating any street or part of a street or changing the name of any street, may include in one ordinance the change of name or the vacation or narrowing of more than one street, alley, or avenue. Before vacating any street or part thereof or narrowing any street, the commission shall first pass a resolution declaring its intention to do so.   (2) The city manager shall serve notice of the resolution, in the manner that service of summons is required to be made in civil actions, upon all persons who are owners or purchasers under contracts for deed of property that abuts upon the portion of the street affected by the proposed vacation or narrowing and shall publish notice once in one daily newspaper of general circulation in the municipality if there is one or if not, once in one weekly newspaper of like circulation. The notice shall state the time and place at which objections will be heard.   (3) Unless at least 51% of the affected property owners object to the proposed vacation or narrowing, the commission may by ordinance declare such vacation or narrowing. The order of the commission vacating or narrowing a street or alley which has been dedicated to public use by the proprietor, to the extent that it is vacated or narrowed, operates as a revocation of the acceptance thereof by the commission, but the right-of-way and easement therein of any lot owner is not impaired thereby.   History: En. Sec. 96, Ch. 152, L. 1917; re-en. Sec. 5494, R.C.M. 1921; re-en. Sec. 5494, R.C.M. 1935; R.C.M. 1947, 11-3310; amd. Sec. 27, Ch. 262, L. 1979; amd. Sec. 5, Ch. 526, L. 1983.
MT Code § 7-3-4449 (2021)
2021 Montana Code Annotated|Title 7. Local Government|Chapter 3. Alternative Forms of Local Government|Part 44. Municipal Commission-Manager Government Continued|7-3-4449. Grant of right to use or occupy public places

  7-3-4449. Grant of right to use or occupy public places. The commission shall have all powers to grant rights to occupy or use the streets, highways, bridges, or public places in the municipality that now are or hereafter may be granted to municipalities by the constitution or laws of Montana. Every ordinance or resolution passed by the commission granting the right to occupy or use streets, highways, or public places of municipalities shall be complete in the form in which it is finally passed and remain on file with the commission for inspection by the public for at least 1 week before the final adoption or passage thereof.   History: En. Sec. 98, Ch. 152, L. 1917; amd. Sec. 3, Ch. 44, L. 1919; re-en. Sec. 5496, R.C.M. 1921; re-en. Sec. 5496, R.C.M. 1935; R.C.M. 1947, 11-3312.
MT Code § 7-3-4450 (2021)
2021 Montana Code Annotated|Title 7. Local Government|Chapter 3. Alternative Forms of Local Government|Part 44. Municipal Commission-Manager Government Continued|7-3-4450. Renewal of franchises

  7-3-4450. Renewal of franchises. The commission may by ordinance renew any grant for the construction or operation of any utility, at its expiration, subject to petition and referendum as hereinbefore provided.   History: En. Sec. 99, Ch. 152, L. 1917; re-en. Sec. 5497, R.C.M. 1921; re-en. Sec. 5497, R.C.M. 1935; R.C.M. 1947, 11-3313.
MT Code § 7-3-4451 (2021)
2021 Montana Code Annotated|Title 7. Local Government|Chapter 3. Alternative Forms of Local Government|Part 44. Municipal Commission-Manager Government Continued|7-3-4451. Prohibition on exclusive grant or franchise

  7-3-4451. Prohibition on exclusive grant or franchise. No exclusive grant or renewal shall ever be granted, and no grant shall be renewed before 2 years prior to its expiration.   History: En. Sec. 100, Ch. 152, L. 1917; amd. Sec. 5, Ch. 44, L. 1919; re-en. Sec. 5498, R.C.M. 1921; re-en. Sec. 5498, R.C.M. 1935; R.C.M. 1947, 11-3314.