Montana § 7-6-2426 Enumeration Of County Charges

Montana Statutes

§ 7-6-2426 — Enumeration Of County Charges

Montana § 7-6-2426

Title 7LOCAL GOVERNMENT

Ch. 6FINANCIAL ADMINISTRATION AND TAXATION

Part 24County Auditor and Claims Against County

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Mont. Code Ann. § 7-6-2426 (2026).

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7-6-2426 . Enumeration of county charges.

(1)The following are county charges:

(a)charges incurred against the county by virtue of any provision of this title;

(b)all expenses necessarily incurred by the county attorney in criminal cases arising within the county, except as provided in subsection (2);

(c)the salary and actual expenses for traveling, when on official duty, allowed by law to sheriffs and the compensation allowed by law to constables for executing process on persons charged with criminal offenses;

(d)the board of prisoners confined in jail;

(e)the accounts of the coroner of the county for services that are provided by law;

(f)all charges and accounts for services rendered by any justice of the peace for services in the examination or trial of persons charged with crime

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7-6-2426 . Enumeration of county charges. (1) The following are county charges:
(a) charges incurred against the county by virtue of any provision of this title;
(b) all expenses necessarily incurred by the county attorney in criminal cases arising within the county, except as provided in subsection (2);
(c) the salary and actual expenses for traveling, when on official duty, allowed by law to sheriffs and the compensation allowed by law to constables for executing process on persons charged with criminal offenses;
(d) the board of prisoners confined in jail;
(e) the accounts of the coroner of the county for services that are provided by law;
(f) all charges and accounts for services rendered by any justice of the peace for services in the examination or trial of persons charged with crime as provided for by law;
(g) the necessary expenses incurred in the support of county hospitals and poorfarms and in the support of the indigent sick and the otherwise dependent poor whose support is chargeable to the county;
(h) the contingent expenses necessarily incurred for the use and benefit of the county;
(i) every other sum directed by law to be raised for any county purpose under the direction of the board of county commissioners or declared to be a county charge.
(2) The costs of subsection (1)(b) arising from the criminal prosecution of escape or of an offense committed in the state prison must be paid as provided in 53-30-110 .

Legislative History

En. Sec. 4681, Pol. C. 1895; re-en. Sec. 3199, Rev. C. 1907; re-en. Sec. 4952, R.C.M. 1921; Cal. Pol. C. Sec. 4344; re-en. Sec. 4952, R.C.M. 1935; amd. Sec. 3, Ch. 420, L. 1971; amd. Sec. 1, Ch. 72, L. 1975; R.C.M. 1947, 16-3802(1); amd. Sec. 7, Ch. 680, L. 1985; amd. Sec. 22, Ch. 585, L. 2001; amd. Sec. 20, Ch. 449, L. 2005; amd. Sec. 1, Ch. 45, L. 2009.