Terms Used In Montana Code > Title 76 > Chapter 25 > Part 1 - General Provisions

• Amendment: A proposal to alter the text of a pending bill or other measure by striking out some of it, by inserting new language, or both. Before an amendment becomes part of the measure, thelegislature must agree to it.
• Appropriation: The provision of funds, through an annual appropriations act or a permanent law, for federal agencies to make payments out of the Treasury for specified purposes. The formal federal spending process consists of two sequential steps: authorization
• Certificate of survey: means a drawing of a field survey prepared by a registered surveyor for the purpose of disclosing facts pertaining to boundary locations. See Montana Code 76-25-103
• Dedication: means the deliberate appropriation of land by an owner for any general and public use, reserving to the landowner no rights that are incompatible with the full exercise and enjoyment of the public use to which the property has been devoted. See Montana Code 76-25-103
• Division of land: means the segregation of one or more parcels of land from a larger tract held in single or undivided ownership by transferring or contracting to transfer title to a portion of the tract or properly filing a certificate of survey or subdivision plat establishing the identity of the segregated parcels pursuant to this chapter. See Montana Code 76-25-103
• Dwelling: means a building designed for residential living purposes, including single-unit, two-unit, and multi-unit dwellings. See Montana Code 76-25-103
• Dwelling unit: means one or more rooms designed for or occupied exclusively by one household. See Montana Code 76-25-103
• Fair market value: The price at which an asset would change hands in a transaction between a willing, informed buyer and a willing, informed seller.
• governing body: means the elected body responsible for the administration of a local government. See Montana Code 76-25-103
• jurisdiction: means the area within the boundaries of the local government. See Montana Code 76-25-103
• 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.
• Land use permit: means an authorization to complete development in conformance with an application approved by the local government. See Montana Code 76-25-103
• Land use plan: means the land use plan and future land use map adopted in accordance with this chapter. See Montana Code 76-25-103
• Land use regulations: means zoning, zoning map, subdivision, or other land use regulations authorized by state law. See Montana Code 76-25-103
• 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}
• Local government: means a county, consolidated city-county, or an incorporated municipality to which the provisions of this chapter apply as provided in 76-25-105. See Montana Code 76-25-103
• Ministerial permit: means a permit granted upon a determination that a proposed project complies with the zoning map and the established standards set forth in the zoning regulations. See Montana Code 76-25-103
• Person: includes a corporation or other entity as well as a natural person. See Montana Code 1-1-201
• Planning administrator: means the person designated by the local governing body to review, analyze, provide recommendations, or make final decisions on any or all zoning, subdivision, and other development applications as required in this chapter. See Montana Code 76-25-103
• Plat: means a graphical representation of a subdivision showing the division of land into lots, parcels, blocks, streets, alleys, and other divisions and dedications. See Montana Code 76-25-103
• 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
• Quorum: The number of legislators that must be present to do business.
• 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
• Subdivision: means a division of land or land so divided that it creates one or more parcels containing less than 160 acres that cannot be described as a one-quarter aliquot part of a United States government section, exclusive of public roadways, in order that the title to the parcels may be sold or otherwise transferred and includes any resubdivision and a condominium. See Montana Code 76-25-103
• Tract of record: means an individual parcel of land, irrespective of ownership, that can be identified by legal description, independent of any other parcel of land, using documents on file in the records of the county clerk and recorder's office. See Montana Code 76-25-103
• United States: includes the District of Columbia and the territories. See Montana Code 1-1-201