Montana § 50-53-209 - Cooperative Agreements -- Inspections
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§ 50-53-209. Cooperative Agreements -- Inspections
Cooperative agreements -- inspections. (1) The department may enter into cooperative agreements with local boards of health to authorize those boards to act as agents of the department and to conduct inspections of and enforce applicable statutes and department rules relating to public swimming pools and public bathing places within the jurisdictions of the respective boards. (2) The department or a local board of health, pursuant to a cooperative agreement, shall annually conduct: (a) at least one full facility inspection and one critical point inspection of each public swimming pool or public bathing place operated throughout the year; and (b) at least one full facility inspection of each seasonal public swimming pool or public bathing place. (3) The department shall enter into cooperative agreements with the department of fish, wildlife, and parks and other state agencies that operate public swimming pools or public bathing places to address the enforcement of this chapter and rules adopted under this chapter.
Source: official Montana text · Last verified 2026-08-27
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Section 50-53-209 ("Cooperative Agreements -- Inspections") is part of the Montana Code Annotated, the codified statutory law of Montana. It sets out the legal rule or procedure described in the text above. Statutes are amended regularly, so always verify against the official source.
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