Terms Used In Montana Code > Title 60 > Chapter 5 - Control of Access and Information Signs

• Arrest: Taking physical custody of a person by lawful authority.
• Arterial highway: means a state highway designated by the commission as part of the noninterstate component of the national highway system, the primary highway system, and any highway so designated as a part of the secondary highway system that has been constructed and is being used primarily for through traffic on a continuous route. See Montana Code 60-5-102
• authority: means the entities in state, county, and municipal governments that have authority to construct, repair, and maintain highways, roads, and streets. See Montana Code 60-5-102
• Business sign: means a separately attached sign mounted on a motorist information sign panel to show the brand, symbol, trademark, or name, or combination of these, for a motorist service available on a crossroad at or near an interchange or intersection. See Montana Code 60-5-502
• Contract: A legal written agreement that becomes binding when signed.
• Controlled-access facility: means and includes streets, alleys, public roads, private roads, and ways of passage intersecting a controlled-access highway and real property contiguous to the right-of-way of a controlled-access highway. See Montana Code 60-5-102
• Controlled-access highway: means those portions of an interstate highway, throughway, or throughway intersection that the commission designates for through traffic or other commission-designated highway system or state highway over, from, or to which owners or occupants of abutting land or other persons have no easement of access or only a limited easement of access, light, air, or view. See Montana Code 60-5-102
• Conviction: A judgement of guilt against a criminal defendant.
• Crossroad: means a marked route or other public road intersecting a freeway or divided highway for which access is provided at an interchange or intersection. See Montana Code 60-5-502
• Customary: means according to usage. See Montana Code 1-1-206
• Damages: Money paid by defendants to successful plaintiffs in civil cases to compensate the plaintiffs for their injuries.
• Department: means the department of transportation provided for in 2-15-2501. See Montana Code 60-5-502
• Devise: To gift property by will.
• Franchisee: means a person awarded a franchise as provided in 60-5-505. See Montana Code 60-5-502
• Gift: A voluntary transfer or conveyance of property without consideration, or for less than full and adequate consideration based on fair market value.
• Lease: A contract transferring the use of property or occupancy of land, space, structures, or equipment in consideration of a payment (e.g., rent). ^{Source: OCC}
• Motorist information sign: means a rectangular sign panel located in the same manner as other official traffic signs, readable from the main traveled way, and that is a:

  (a)specific information sign; or

  (b)tourist-oriented directional sign. See Montana Code 60-5-502

• Motorist service: means gas, food, lodging, camping, recreation, and other tourist services. See Montana Code 60-5-502
• Remainder: An interest in property that takes effect in the future at a specified time or after the occurrence of some event, such as the death of a life tenant.
• Sex: means the organization of the body parts and gametes for reproduction in human beings and other organisms. See Montana Code 1-1-201
• Specific information sign: means a motorist information sign that is located on the interstate highway system and that contains:

  (a)the words "GAS" "FOOD" "LODGING" or "CAMPING";

  (b)directional information; and

  (c)one or more individual business signs. See Montana Code 60-5-502

• 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
• Throughway: means a portion of an arterial highway constructed and used for carrying traffic partially or entirely around a town or city or a portion of a town or city. See Montana Code 60-5-102
• Tourist-oriented directional sign: means a motorist information sign located on the primary highway system to provide:

  (a)business identification; and

  (b)directional information for businesses, services, and activities of interest to tourists. See Montana Code 60-5-502

• Writing: includes printing. See Montana Code 1-1-203