Title 7, Title 7

All money collected by the county treasurer for licenses issued by the county under this chapter must be paid into the treasury of the county for the use of the county.

(1) A license must be procured immediately before the commencement of any business or occupation liable to a license tax from the county treasurer of the county where the applicant desires to transact the business or occupation. (2) The license authorizes the party to transact th…

No license issued under this part authorizes any person to carry on any business within the limits of any incorporated city or town having power by its charter to impose or levy city or town license taxes unless such person, in addition to the license provided by this part, also …

Every person who commences or carries on a business, trade, profession, or calling, for the transaction or carrying on of which a license is required by the provisions of any of the license laws of Montana, without taking out or procuring such license is guilty of a misdemeanor a…

The board of county commissioners shall investigate whether any persons are doing business in the county without a license or if the amount of a license is sufficient. In either event, the treasurer must be officially notified.

Upon notification of the treasurer as provided in 7-21-2114, the treasurer is personally liable for the license or increase unless the treasurer promptly proceeds under 7-21-2104 or 7-21-2116 to collect the license fee.

The county shall bring suit in the name of the state of Montana as plaintiff for the recovery of the license tax or fee authorized by this part against any person required to take out a license who fails, neglects, or refuses to take out the license or who carries on or attempts …

Upon the trial of any action authorized by this part, the defendant is considered not to have procured the proper license unless the defendant either produces it or proves that the license was procured. However, the defendant may plead in bar of the action a recovery against and …

(1) The board of county commissioners may, by the adoption of an ordinance that substantially complies with the provisions of 7-5-103 through 7-5-107, regulate the activities of pawnbrokers located outside the boundaries of an incorporated city or town. The regulations may includ…

As used in this part, unless the context indicates otherwise, the following definitions apply: (1) "Temporary premises" means a hotel, roominghouse, storeroom, building or part of a building, tent, vacant lot, freight station, railroad car, automobile, truck, trailer or trailer h…

The definition of transient retail merchant shall continue to apply until such person, firm, or corporation shall be continuously engaged at such particular place in the county for a period of 1 year.

(1) Nothing contained in this part is intended to operate so as to impair, abridge, or interfere with the right of any incorporated municipality within this state to enact local laws or ordinances dealing with the subject of this part. (2) The provisions of this part shall not ap…

The board of county commissioners of any county or the governing body of an alternative form of government established pursuant to Title 7, chapter 3, has jurisdiction and power to regulate and license transient retail merchants, subject to any restrictions or limitations as are …

(1) The board of county commissioners of any county may appropriate money from the general fund of the county for advertising the agricultural resources of the county through the department of agriculture or for assisting the department of agriculture in presenting exhibits of Mo…

(1) The county commissioners of any county may appropriate money from the general funds of the county treasury or from funds provided by a levy for the purpose of carrying on extension work in agriculture and home economics within the county in cooperation with Montana state univ…

(1) A board of county commissioners may employ a stock inspector if: (a) the board has found, based on information that the board has gathered or that has been provided to it by the county attorney or sheriff, that livestock is being stolen, slaughtered, or otherwise illegally di…

(1) Whenever a stock inspector is employed, the inspector's compensation must be at a rate commensurate with the rate paid to an entry-level deputy sheriff of the county, including necessary expenses for the time actually engaged in the work, and the inspector must be paid by a w…

(1) A board of county commissioners shall review any proposal made by the department of livestock or the department of fish, wildlife, and parks under 81-2-120 or 87-1-216 to authorize the transplantation or relocation of any wild buffalo or wild bison certified by the state vete…

In addition to the powers specifically granted by the laws of the state and other limitations and exceptions contained in law regarding the debt-incurring power of boards of county commissioners, the boards of county commissioners in every county shall have the power to erect mar…

The boards of county commissioners within Montana may acquire by purchase, lease, construction, or otherwise suitable grounds, buildings, and quarters for the establishing, conducting, operating, and maintaining of a public market open to the farmers, gardeners, and actual produc…

A board of county commissioners availing themselves of the provisions of this part shall, as soon as the necessary lands and premises have been acquired, cause to be opened and maintained at the county seat and in the quarters acquired an open public market for the benefit of the…

All county markets established under the provisions of this part shall be open to the public not less than 2 days in each week.

The rules adopted for the government of the county market, together with a notice of the market days in each week, must be published as provided in 7-1-2121 by the county commissioners once in each year prior to the opening of the market.

The expense of the establishment and maintenance of the markets provided for in this part shall be paid by the boards of county commissioners from the general funds of the counties, except such portions of the expense of operating and maintaining the same as may be derived from t…

(1) A producer of products using the marketplace established under the provisions of this part shall pay or cause to be paid, at the close of each day's business, to the market master a charge of 5% of the person's gross sales. (2) The funds collected by the market master must be…

Every person, firm, or corporation availing themselves of the privileges provided hereby who shall fail, neglect, or refuse to so pay to the market master of the county market of any county of this state 5% of the gross sales made by them within such market shall be guilty of a m…

No rules adopted for the government of any market established under this part shall permit any person, firm, or corporation to purchase the products displayed and offered for sale for the purpose of speculating thereon by again offering the same for sale within such public market…

In each of the counties of this state wherein the office of county auditor exists, the county auditor shall be ex officio the county market master. In all other counties which may avail themselves of the provisions of this part wherein no office of county auditor is maintained, t…

(1) A county market master shall, under the supervision and approval of the board of county commissioners, make all necessary rules for the establishment, maintenance, operation, and control of the markets established under this part in the respective counties of the state. (2) T…

An amount of the appropriation or tax levy or assessment for a county fair district or a multiple county fair district may not be expended for horseracing.

(1) The city or town council has power: (a) to license by ordinance all industries, pursuits, professions, and occupations and to impose penalties for failure to comply with such license requirements; (b) to fix the amount, terms, and manner of issuing and revoking licenses. (2) …

The city treasurer must collect the license fees authorized by 7-21-4101 in the manner and at the time prescribed by ordinance.

The city clerk must issue such licenses.

(1) The city or town council may license, tax, and regulate: (a) auctioneers, peddlers, pawnbrokers, and secondhand and junk shops; (b) motor vehicles and motor vehicle bodies, except those on commercial property, which are not otherwise taxed; (c) drivers, porters, tenpin alleys…

The city or town council has power to: (1) provide for and regulate the inspection of flour, meal, and all provisions and oils; (2) regulate the inspection of milk, water, butter, lard, and other provisions; (3) except as provided in 50-50-126, regulate the vending of meat, poult…

The city or town council has power to regulate the inspection, weighing, and measuring of wood, coal, stone, corn or other grain, and hay within the city or town.

The city or town council has power: (1) to regulate the location of slaughterhouses, breweries, distilleries, livery stables, foundries, blacksmith shops, planing mills, soap factories, and tanneries within the city or town and to prohibit any offensive and unwholesome establishm…

The city or town council has power to license and regulate automobiles, trucks, hackney carriages, carts, omnibuses, wagons, and drays and to fix the rate to be charged for the carriage of persons and property within the city or town and to the public works and property without t…

The city or town council has power to regulate the putting up of signs and awnings.

The city or town council has power to require the owners and keepers of pawn, secondhand, and junk shops to keep a record of all articles purchased or pawned to them. The record and the articles purchased or pawned are subject to the inspection of all police officers of the city …

The city or town council has power to prevent the keepers of pawn, secondhand, and junk shops from the purchasing of any article from a minor without the written consent of the parent or guardian of such minor.

The city or town council has power to establish markets and market houses and provide for the supervision and use thereof.

The city or town council has power to regulate or prohibit dance houses within the city or town limits and within 3 miles thereof.