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Volume & Opinion Number | Opinion Held | Date Issued |
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45-31 |
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12/30/94 |
45-30 |
A small, transit-type bus (which is smaller than a greyhound bus but larger than a nine-passenger van) is a “school bus” under Mont. Code Ann. §20-10-101(2) and may not be used to transport students to extracurricular activities unless it meets the 1990 National Standards for School Buses adopted by the Montana Board of Public Education. | 12/27/94 |
45-29 |
The approval of the voters in a rural fire district, following a resolution of its board of directors pursuant to Mont. Code Ann. §15-10-412(10), is sufficient to allow the board of county commissioners to continue to levy taxes in excess of the limitations established in Mont. Code Ann. §§15-10-401 to -412 in following years, without subsequent voter approval each year thereafter, if the voters of the taxing unit have been informed of the amount and the duration of the increase in tax liability. | 11/01/94 |
45-28 | Investment earnings on funds earmarked to be loaned, but not yet paid out to a loan recipient, are not “payback funds” or loan repayments and therefore may not be credited to the science and technology development account to be used to cover the costs of administering programs of the Montana Science and Technology Financing Act. | 09/08/94 |
45-27 |
School district trustees may transfer any portion of the end-of-the-year general fund balance into the compensated absence liability fund subject to the limitations in Mont. Code Ann. § 20-9-512(4). | 07/08/94 |
45-26 | Counties are required by law to reimburse the Department of Social and Rehabilitation Services for the expenses associated with the computerization of public assistance eligibility determinations. | 06/22/94 |
45-25 |
If the conditions established in Mont. Code Ann. §15-10-412(11)(b)(i) are met, the limitations on the amount of taxes levied which are set forth in Mont. Code Ann. title15, chapter 10, do not apply to either the special one-mill levy under Mont. Code Ann. §50-2-114 or the special five-mill levy under Mont. Code Ann. §50-2-111(2)(b). | 06/21/94 |
45-24 |
Although a county treasurer may not require delinquent SID assessments to be paid in addition to the sale price of tax deed land, the county treasurer must apply the sale proceeds of the land to delinquent SID assessments as provided in Mont. Code Ann. § 7-8-2306. | 05/23/94 |
45-23 |
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05/19/94 |
45-22 |
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05/19/94 |