Montana § 7-1-4118 - Reduction In Classification Of Municipalities
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§ 7-1-4118. Reduction In Classification Of Municipalities
Reduction in classification of municipalities. (1) Whenever it appears by the census taken by the United States, the state, or otherwise that the population of a city of the first or second class has decreased so as to be insufficient in number to entitle it to be a city of that class, the council must thereupon, by resolution declare that such city be reduced to a city of the second class or town as the case may be. (2) A certified copy of such resolution must be filed in the office of the county clerk and in the office of the secretary of state, and thereafter such city becomes a city of the second class or a town, as the case may be, to be governed under the provisions of this code relative to cities and towns. (3) The provisions of 7-1-4116 and 7-1-4117 apply to this section.
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