Title 60, Title 60

(1) Except as provided in subsections (2) through (6), if the estimated cost of any work exceeds $50,000, the commission shall award the contract by competitive bidding to the lowest responsible and responsive bidder. The award must be made upon the notice and terms that the comm…

(1) (a) Subject to subsection (1)(b), whenever the commission calls for competitive bidding, each bidder shall meet all requirements of Title 18, chapter 1, part 2. (b) The commission may accept electronic bid bonds signed electronically or otherwise verified by the bidder and th…

Each bid communicated to the commission in response to a request for bids required by this part must comply with the unit price and signature requirements of 18-2-303 and the bid security requirements of 60-2-113 in order for the bid to be accepted.

(1) Subject to subsections (2) through (4), the department shall comply with the 30-day time period for payment of contracts as provided in 18-2-306 for all contracts let by the commission in accordance with this part. (2) For the final payment on a contract, the department shall…

Unless prohibited by federal law, payment under this part of a contractor or subcontractor for services performed by the contractor or subcontractor is governed by the provisions of Title 28, chapter 2, part 21.

(1) Except as provided in subsections (2) and (3), a contract subject to the provisions of this part with a provision that requires one party to the contract to indemnify, hold harmless, insure, or defend the other party to the contract or the other party's officers, employees, o…

(1) The commission may use alternative project delivery methods for letting contracts. (2) Once the commission, acting on a recommendation of the department, identifies a project for which an alternative project delivery method will be used and approves selection criteria propose…

(1) The commission shall adopt rules to prioritize the expenditure of funds on railroad crossings. (2) If requested by the board of county commissioners of any county, the commission shall conduct a public hearing in the affected county on the priority assigned any railroad cross…

(1) For the purpose of apportioning state and federal-aid highway funds, the commission shall designate the public highways and streets to be placed on the following systems: (a) the national highway system; (b) the primary highway system; (c) the secondary highway system; or (d)…

(1) Each year, out of federal-aid highway funds available for construction purposes, the commission shall allocate a portion of the funds for projects located on: (a) the national highway system; (b) the primary highway system; (c) the secondary highway system; (d) the urban high…

The commission shall designate the public highways that are to be included on the state maintenance system. Except as provided in 60-2-107, the system must include all the highways that the department maintained on July 1, 1976.

(1) The commission may allocate federal-aid highway funds for projects or programs in which all or a portion of the work is on highways that are not located on the highway systems defined in 60-1-103. The allocations must be made without regard to the financial district in which …

The commission may direct the department to construct a four-lane highway generally along the present route of U.S. highway 2 from the North Dakota border to the Idaho border in order to increase tourism and to bring economic development to Montana. Planning for the U.S. highway …

As used in 18-8-204, 18-8-205, 60-2-111, 60-2-112, 60-2-120, 60-2-137, and this section, the following definitions apply: (1) (a) "Alternative project delivery method" means a process approved by the commission and recognized by the U.S. department of transportation, federal high…

(1) Once the commission, acting on a recommendation of the department, has identified a project for which the design-build contracting process will be used and the commission has approved selection criteria proposed by the department, the department shall prepare and advertise a …

The commission shall designate a route, to be known as the rawhide stampede rustlers and rendezvous trade corridor, along the present route of state highway 16 from Glendive to the port of Raymond in order to facilitate trade between Canada and Mexico, to encourage economic devel…

Unless prohibited by federal law, all contracts let by the commission for the construction or reconstruction of the highways located on commission-designated highway systems and state highways, including portions in cities and towns and all contracts entered into under 7-14-4108,…

(1) The department may plan, lay out, alter, construct, reconstruct, improve, repair, and maintain highways on the commission-designated highway systems and state highways according to priorities established by and on projects selected and designated by the commission. (2) The de…

The department shall: (1) maintain and preserve the records of the commission in its office at Helena; and (2) file and preserve copies of all plans, specifications, contracts, estimates, and official acts taken by it or by the commission.

(1) The department shall maintain all public highways or portions of public highways that it maintained on July 1, 1976. (2) The department shall assume the maintenance responsibilities for paved secondary roads as roads are identified cooperatively by the department and the coun…

Except as provided in 60-2-203, the department may enter into an agreement with a local governing body to maintain portions of public highways within its boundaries upon terms and conditions as may be agreed upon. However, in the case of highways in the state maintenance system a…

The department may expend funds for the construction, reconstruction, engineering, administration, betterment, and maintenance of highways designated under 60-2-106. It may do all things necessary or required to carry out fully the cooperation contemplated under Title 23, U.S.C.,…

(1) The department shall compile statistics regarding public highways throughout the state and collect all related information deemed expedient. (2) It shall investigate various methods of construction adapted to different sections of the state and decide the best methods of cons…

(1) The department may contract with the United States or any state or group of states or agencies thereof or any nonprofit association, on a joint or cooperative basis, to study, analyze, or test the effects of weights on highways. Studies or tests shall seek solutions to the pr…

(1) After a segment of a commission-designated highway system or state highway is constructed, the department shall seed barrow pits, slopes, and shoulders to an adaptable perennial grass or combination of perennial grasses and legumes whenever establishment of perennial grass co…

(1) Whenever the department establishes the location, width, and lines of any new, reconstructed, or proposed highway or the commission designates a road, street, or highway as a controlled-access facility, the department shall file a right-of-way plan showing the centerline and …

The department, either solely or in conjunction with a city, county, or consolidated local government, shall pay the costs of construction of streets, curbs, gutters, and sidewalks and maintenance of streets, highways, curbs, and gutters that are: (1) state highway routes; and (2…

(1) The department may not construct highway bypasses or highway relocation projects without prior consent of the governing body of an incorporated municipality when the bypasses or projects: (a) are not part of the national system of interstate highways built under the National …

(1) There is an account in the state special revenue fund provided for in 17-2-102 to be known as the better local bridge fund account to the credit of the department of transportation. (2) There must be deposited in the account money received pursuant to 17-1-405. (3) The accoun…

(1) The department may negotiate and enter into a bilateral agreement with an adjoining state or province to provide for the exchange of emergency maintenance services on highways located in Montana or the adjoining state or province. (2) An agreement authorized under subsection …

(1) Subject to the provisions of federal law, the department shall design and erect at relevant locations signs, clearly visible to traffic, identifying: (a) each prominent mountain range that is visible to an occupant of a vehicle traveling on a highway in Montana that is part o…

The department shall: (1) design, erect, and maintain welcome and farewell signs within Montana at the nearest practical location to the border of the state where each national highway system or primary highway system enters or leaves Montana; and (2) select locations for the sig…

The department may accept money from other state agencies, federal agencies, or private persons for the purposes of 60-2-218 and may expend the money received for those purposes.

(1) Cultural heritage areas are established: (a) encompassing Silver Bow County and Deer Lodge County; (b) encompassing Miles City. (2) Subject to the provisions of federal law, the department shall, as funds are available under subsection (4), erect and maintain at specified loc…

(1) The department shall use postconsumer recycled material in federal and state highway construction projects, including but not limited to use as: (a) roadway fill material; (b) roadway aggregates; (c) bedding material; (d) foundation material; and (e) filter material. (2) The …

Neither the department nor any agency of state or local government may use mineral slag in road sanding or snow removal within one-fourth mile of lakes and within 100 yards of streambeds.

(1) As funds are available under subsection (2), the department may design and erect signs along the commemorative highways designated in 60-1-202 through 60-1-207 and 60-1-210 identifying the routes and providing interpretive information. (2) The department may accept money from…

The department of transportation shall display at each rest area within the limits of the right-of-way of interstate highways and other state highways: (1) a poster created by the department of justice pursuant to 44-4-1501 that provides information regarding the national human t…

(1) (a) After the commission has selected and prioritized a construction project under 60-2-110, the department or the commission shall determine whether the project will have a substantial impact on the public. If the department or the commission determines that the project will…

(1) The department of transportation shall complete a feasibility study to determine whether platooning can be safely conducted in Montana. The study must include consideration of Montana's various terrain, weather extremes, effectiveness of supporting communication networks, and…

To augment and help make more efficient and effective the enforcement of certain laws of the state, the department shall establish temporary or permanent ports of entry or checking stations upon highways in the state at places which the department considers necessary and advisabl…

The department shall cooperate with other agencies and political subdivisions of this state in the use of the ports of entry or checking stations so that maximum use can be made of the facilities in enforcement of the laws of this state.

The department may negotiate and enter into a bilateral agreement with an official of an adjoining state or province to provide for the collection by either party state or province of highway user fees, registration fees, permit fees, fuel taxes, or any other fees and taxes that …

(1) There is a scenic-historic byways program. The commission may designate roads to be included as part of the program and may add or delete roads from the program. The commission may not designate a road as a scenic-historic byway without the concurrence of the affected local g…

(1) The department shall adopt rules to effectively administer the scenic-historic byways program. The rules must include the criteria that will be considered for designating a road for inclusion in the scenic-historic byways program. (2) In developing the criteria, to be include…