2023 Montana Code Annotated › Title 69. Public Utilities and Carriers › Chapter 13. Pipeline Carriers › Part 1. General Provisions › 69-13-101. Common carrier pipeline -- definition

69-13-101. Common carrier pipeline -- definition.
(1) A person, firm, corporation, limited partnership, joint-stock association, or association is a common carrier if it engages in:
(a) owning, operating, or managing any pipeline or any part of any pipeline within the state for the transportation of crude petroleum, coal, or the products of crude petroleum or coal or of carbon dioxide from a plant or facility that produces or captures carbon dioxide to or for the public for hire or engaging in the business of transporting crude petroleum, coal, or the products of crude petroleum or coal or of carbon dioxide from a plant or facility that produces or captures carbon dioxide by pipelines;
(b) owning, operating, or managing any pipeline or any part of any pipeline for the transportation of crude petroleum, coal, or the products of crude petroleum or coal or of carbon dioxide from a plant or facility that produces or captures carbon dioxide to or for the public for hire when the pipeline is constructed or maintained upon, along, over, or under any public road or highway;
(c) owning, operating, or managing any pipeline or any part of any pipeline for transportation to or for the public for hire of crude petroleum, coal, or the products of crude petroleum or coal or of carbon dioxide from a plant or facility that produces or captures carbon dioxide when the pipeline is or may be constructed, operated, or maintained across, upon, along, over, or under the right-of-way of any railroad, corporation, or other common carrier required by law to transport crude petroleum, coal, or the products of crude petroleum or coal or of carbon dioxide from a plant or facility that produces or captures carbon dioxide as a common carrier;
(d) owning, operating, or managing or participating in ownership, operation, or management, under lease, contract of purchase, agreement to buy or sell, or other agreement or arrangement of any kind whatsoever, any pipeline or any part of any pipeline for the transportation from any oil field, coal mine or field, or place of production within this state to any distributing, refining, or marketing center or reshipping point within this state of crude petroleum, coal, or the products of crude petroleum or coal or of carbon dioxide from a plant or facility that produces or captures carbon dioxide bought from others; or
(e) made a common carrier by or under the terms of contract with or in pursuance of the law of the United States.
(2) For the purposes of this chapter, "plant or facility that produces or captures carbon dioxide" has the meaning provided for in 15-6-158.
(3) The provisions of this chapter do not apply to:
(a) pipelines that are limited in their use to the wells, stations, plants, and refineries of the owner and that are not a part of the pipeline transportation system of any common carrier; or
(b) any property of a common carrier that is not a part of or necessarily incident to its pipeline transportation system.
History: En. Sec. 1, Ch. 8, Ex. L. 1921; re-en. Sec. 3848, R.C.M. 1921; re-en. Sec. 3848, R.C.M. 1935; amd. Sec. 1, Ch. 190, L. 1955; amd. Sec. 1, Ch. 170, L. 1963; R.C.M. 1947, 8-201; amd. Sec. 1, Ch. 231, L. 2009; amd. Sec. 1, Ch. 44, L. 2013.