Montana Code 20-15-316. Operating levy for community college districts created on or after January 1, 2021
20-15-316. Operating levy for community college districts created on or after January 1, 2021. (1) This section applies only to community college districts created on or after January 1, 2021. The legislature intends that a newly created community college district have a single unified operating district levy to support the district’s current fund.
Terms Used In Montana Code 20-15-316
- community college district: means a body corporate and a subdivision of the state of Montana organized under a single board of trustees for the purpose of providing community college instruction open to all people, subject to uniform regulations as determined by the trustees. See Montana Code 20-15-101
- district: means the territory, regardless of county boundaries, organized under the provisions of this title to provide public educational services under the jurisdiction of the trustees prescribed by this title. See Montana Code 20-6-101
- fund: means a separate detailed account of receipts and expenditures for a specific purpose as authorized by law or by the superintendent of public instruction under the provisions of subsection (2). See Montana Code 20-9-201
(2)Subject to 15-10-420, a community college district may impose an operating levy to support the district’s current unrestricted subfund under the provisions of this section.
(3)A newly created community college district may impose an operating levy under this section only after voter approval for a new mill levy as described in 15-10-425.
(4)A community college district may exceed the mill levy limit under 15-10-420 for the operating levy only after voter approval for increasing a mill levy as described in 15-10-425.