Terms Used In Montana Code > Title 7 > Chapter 22 > Part 21 - County Weed Control

• 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.
• Board: means a district weed board created under 7-22-2103. See Montana Code 7-22-2101
• Commissioners: means the board of county commissioners. See Montana Code 7-22-2101
• Complaint: A written statement by the plaintiff stating the wrongs allegedly committed by the defendant.
• control: means the use of an integrated weed management program for the containment, suppression, and, where possible, eradication of noxious weeds. See Montana Code 7-22-2101
• Conviction: A judgement of guilt against a criminal defendant.
• Coordinator: means the person employed by the county to conduct the district noxious weed management program and supervise other district employees. See Montana Code 7-22-2101
• Corporation: A legal entity owned by the holders of shares of stock that have been issued, and that can own, receive, and transfer property, and carry on business in its own name.
• Damages: Money paid by defendants to successful plaintiffs in civil cases to compensate the plaintiffs for their injuries.
• Department: means the department of agriculture provided for in 2-15-3001. See Montana Code 7-22-2101
• District: means a weed management district organized under 7-22-2102. See Montana Code 7-22-2101
• Fiscal year: The fiscal year is the accounting period for the government. For the federal government, this begins on October 1 and ends on September 30. The fiscal year is designated by the calendar year in which it ends; for example, fiscal year 2006 begins on October 1, 2005 and ends on September 30, 2006.
• Grantor: The person who establishes a trust and places property into it.
• Injunction: An order of the court prohibiting (or compelling) the performance of a specific act to prevent irreparable damage or injury.
• Integrated weed management program: means a program designed for the long-term management and control of weeds using a combination of techniques, including hand-pulling, cultivation, use of herbicide, use of biological control, mechanical treatment, prescribed grazing, prescribed burning, education, prevention, and revegetation. See Montana Code 7-22-2101
• 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.
• Native plant: means a plant indigenous to the state of Montana. See Montana Code 7-22-2101
• Obligation: An order placed, contract awarded, service received, or similar transaction during a given period that will require payments during the same or a future period.
• Partnership: A voluntary contract between two or more persons to pool some or all of their assets into a business, with the agreement that there will be a proportional sharing of profits and losses.
• Person: means an individual, partnership, corporation, association, or state or local government agency or subdivision owning, occupying, or controlling any land, easement, or right-of-way, including any county, state, or federally owned and controlled highway, drainage or irrigation ditch, spoil bank, barrow pit, or right-of-way for a canal or lateral. See Montana Code 7-22-2101
• Presiding officer: A majority-party Senator who presides over the Senate and is charged with maintaining order and decorum, recognizing Members to speak, and interpreting the Senate's rules, practices and precedents.
• Property: means real and personal property. See Montana Code 1-1-205
• Real property: Land, and all immovable fixtures erected on, growing on, or affixed to the land.
• Real property: means lands, tenements, hereditaments, and possessory title to public lands. 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
• weeds: means any exotic plant species established or that may be introduced in the state that may render land unfit for agriculture, forestry, livestock, wildlife, or other beneficial uses or that may harm native plant communities and that is designated:

  (i)as a statewide noxious weed by rule of the department; or

  (ii)as a district noxious weed by a board, following public notice of intent and a public hearing. See Montana Code 7-22-2101