Montana § 20-9-615 - Voluntary Rural Residential Impact Payments
Full text of Montana Montana Code Annotated § 20-9-615 — Voluntary Rural Residential Impact Payments, with citation guidance and answers to common questions.
§ 20-9-615. Voluntary Rural Residential Impact Payments
Voluntary rural residential impact payments. (1) The trustees of a rural school district may negotiate with a real estate developer or subdivision developer in the school district to voluntarily contribute an impact payment to the district's building fund. The maximum amount of the payment that the trustees may accept must be based upon the number of pupils reasonably expected to move into the district because of the real estate development or subdivision development. Negotiations and any resulting contributions must be voluntary. (2) For the purposes of this section, "rural school district" means a school district in which a majority of the pupils in the district reside outside the limits of any incorporated city or town.
Source: official Montana text · Last verified 2026-08-27
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