Terms Used In Montana Code > Title 60 > Chapter 5 > Part 1 - Control of Access

• Arrest: Taking physical custody of a person by lawful authority.
• Arterial highway: means a state highway designated by the commission as part of the noninterstate component of the national highway system, the primary highway system, and any highway so designated as a part of the secondary highway system that has been constructed and is being used primarily for through traffic on a continuous route. See Montana Code 60-5-102
• authority: means the entities in state, county, and municipal governments that have authority to construct, repair, and maintain highways, roads, and streets. See Montana Code 60-5-102
• Contract: A legal written agreement that becomes binding when signed.
• Controlled-access facility: means and includes streets, alleys, public roads, private roads, and ways of passage intersecting a controlled-access highway and real property contiguous to the right-of-way of a controlled-access highway. See Montana Code 60-5-102
• Controlled-access highway: means those portions of an interstate highway, throughway, or throughway intersection that the commission designates for through traffic or other commission-designated highway system or state highway over, from, or to which owners or occupants of abutting land or other persons have no easement of access or only a limited easement of access, light, air, or view. See Montana Code 60-5-102
• Conviction: A judgement of guilt against a criminal defendant.
• Devise: To gift property by will.
• Gift: A voluntary transfer or conveyance of property without consideration, or for less than full and adequate consideration based on fair market value.
• Jurisdiction: (1) The legal authority of a court to hear and decide a case. Concurrent jurisdiction exists when two courts have simultaneous responsibility for the same case. (2) The geographic area over which the court has authority to decide cases.
• Person: includes a corporation or other entity as well as a natural person. See Montana Code 1-1-201
• Property: means real and personal property. See Montana Code 1-1-205
• State: when applied to the different parts of the United States, includes the District of Columbia and the territories. See Montana Code 1-1-201
• Throughway: means a portion of an arterial highway constructed and used for carrying traffic partially or entirely around a town or city or a portion of a town or city. See Montana Code 60-5-102
• Writing: includes printing. See Montana Code 1-1-203