Terms Used In Montana Code > Title 75 > Chapter 15 > Part 1 - Outdoor Advertising

• Affirmed: In the practice of the appellate courts, the decree or order is declared valid and will stand as rendered in the lower court.
• Appeal: A request made after a trial, asking another court (usually the court of appeals) to decide whether the trial was conducted properly. To make such a request is "to appeal" or "to take an appeal." One who appeals is called the appellant.
• Commercial or industrial activities: means those activities generally recognized as commercial or industrial by zoning authorities in this state, except that none of the following activities are considered commercial or industrial:

  (a)agricultural, forestry, grazing, farming, and related activities, including wayside fresh produce stands;

  (b)transient or temporary activities;

  (c)activities not visible from the main-traveled way;

  (d)activities conducted in a building principally used as a residence;

  (e)railroad tracks and minor sidings;

  (f)activities more than 660 feet from the nearest edge of the right-of-way. See Montana Code 75-15-103

• Commission: means the transportation commission of Montana. See Montana Code 75-15-103
• Complaint: A written statement by the plaintiff stating the wrongs allegedly committed by the defendant.
• Department: means the department of transportation. See Montana Code 75-15-103
• Gift: A voluntary transfer or conveyance of property without consideration, or for less than full and adequate consideration based on fair market value.
• intersection: means those areas and their approaches where traffic is channeled off or onto an interstate route, including the deceleration lanes or acceleration lanes from or to another federal, state, county, city, or other route. See Montana Code 75-15-103
• Lease: A contract transferring the use of property or occupancy of land, space, structures, or equipment in consideration of a payment (e.g., rent). ^{Source: OCC}
• Maintenance: means to repair, refurbish, repaint, or otherwise keep an existing sign structure in a state suitable for use. See Montana Code 75-15-103
• Outdoor advertising: means any outdoor sign, display, light, device, figure, painting, drawing, message, plaque, poster, billboard, or other structure that is designed, intended, or used to advertise or inform and that is visible from any place on the main-traveled way of the interstate or primary systems. See Montana Code 75-15-103
• Person: includes a corporation or other entity as well as a natural person. See Montana Code 1-1-201
• Primary system: means that portion of connected main highways as officially designated or as may be designated by the commission and approved by the secretary pursuant to the provisions of Title 23, United States Code, "Highways". See Montana Code 75-15-103
• Process: means a writ or summons issued in the course of judicial proceedings. See Montana Code 1-1-202
• Property: means real and personal property. See Montana Code 1-1-205
• Secretary: means the secretary of the United States department of transportation. See Montana Code 75-15-103
• 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
• United States: includes the District of Columbia and the territories. See Montana Code 1-1-201
• Unzoned commercial or industrial area: means an area not zoned by state or local law, regulation, or ordinance that is occupied by one or more commercial or industrial activities, other than outdoor advertising, on the lands along the highway for a distance of 600 feet immediately adjacent to the activities. See Montana Code 75-15-103
• Urban area: means an urbanized area or place, as designated by the United States bureau of the census, that has a population of 5,000 or more and that is within boundaries fixed by the department. See Montana Code 75-15-103
• Visible: means capable of being seen and legible without visual aid by a person of normal visual acuity. See Montana Code 75-15-103
• Writing: includes printing. See Montana Code 1-1-203