Terms Used In Montana Code > Title 15 > Chapter 24 > Part 16 - Historic Properties

• Board: means the local review board as provided in 15-24-1605. See Montana Code 15-24-1602
• Certification: means approval by the board or state historic preservation office of a property's qualification for the property tax abatement under the terms of this part. See Montana Code 15-24-1602
• Contributing: means a building, site, structure, or object with historic architectural qualities, historic association, or archaeological value for which a property is significant because:

  (a)it was present during a period of significant local or state history and possesses historic design or architectural integrity reflecting its character at that time or is capable of yielding important information about the period; or

  (b)it independently meets the criteria for listing in the National Register of Historic Places. See Montana Code 15-24-1602

• Jurisdiction: (1) The legal authority of a court to hear and decide a case. Concurrent jurisdiction exists when two courts have simultaneous responsibility for the same case. (2) The geographic area over which the court has authority to decide cases.
• Process: means a writ or summons issued in the course of judicial proceedings. See Montana Code 1-1-202
• Property: means real and personal property. See Montana Code 1-1-205
• Real property: Land, and all immovable fixtures erected on, growing on, or affixed to the land.
• Real property: means lands, tenements, hereditaments, and possessory title to public lands. See Montana Code 1-1-205
• Rehabilitation: means the process of returning a property to a state of utility through repair or alteration that makes possible an efficient contemporary use while preserving those features of the property that are significant to its historical, architectural, and cultural values. See Montana Code 15-24-1602
• Restoration: means the process of accurately recovering the form, details, and setting of a property as it appeared when it was originally built or constructed by removing later work or replacing missing earlier work. See Montana Code 15-24-1602
• State: when applied to the different parts of the United States, includes the District of Columbia and the territories. See Montana Code 1-1-201