Montana Code Annotated (2005)
Table of Contents / TITLE 85. WATER USE / CHAPTER 2. SURFACE WATER AND GROUND WATER
Part 2. Adjudication of Water Rights
Current Version 2025, 2023, 2021, 2019, 2017, 2015, 2013, 2011, 2009, 2007, 2005, 2003, 2001, 1999, 1997, 1995
85-2-201 - Repealed
85-2-202 - Repealed
85-2-203 - Repealed
85-2-204 - Repealed
85-2-205 - Repealed
85-2-206 - Repealed
85-2-207 - Repealed
85-2-208 - Repealed
85-2-209 - Repealed
85-2-210 - Repealed
85-2-211 - Repealed
85-2-212 - Order by supreme court
85-2-213 - Notice of order
85-2-214 - Commencement of action
85-2-215 - Consolidation of matters
85-2-216 - Venue for water rights determinations
85-2-217 - Suspension of adjudication
85-2-218 - Process and criteria for designating priority basins or subbasins
85-2-221 - Filing of claim of existing water right -- filing late claim
85-2-222 - Exemptions
85-2-223 - Public recreational uses
85-2-224 - Statement of claim
85-2-225 - Filing fee -- processing fee for remitted claims
85-2-226 - Abandonment by failure to file claim
85-2-227 - Claim to constitute prima facie evidence -- relevant evidence -- abandonment -- criteria for presumption of municipal nonabandonment
85-2-228 - Federal reserved water rights with priority date of July 1, 1973, or later -- process and adjudication -- purpose
85-2-231 - Temporary preliminary and preliminary decree
85-2-232 - Availability of temporary preliminary or preliminary decree
85-2-233 - Hearing on temporary preliminary decree or preliminary decree -- procedure
85-2-234 - Final decree
85-2-235 - Appeals
85-2-236 - Certificate of water right
85-2-237 - Reopening and review of decrees
85-2-241 - Repealed
85-2-242 - Repealed
85-2-243 - Department assistance to water judges
85-2-247 - Purpose
85-2-248 - Resolution of issue remarks other than by objection
85-2-249 - Prioritization of workload
85-2-250 - Definition
85-2-270 - Findings -- purpose
85-2-271 - Benchmarks -- action taken if not met
85-2-272 - Definitions
85-2-273 - Owner
85-2-276 - Water adjudication fees -- exceptions
85-2-279 - Debt collection
85-2-280 - Water adjudication account
85-2-281 - Reporting requirements
85-2-282 - Examination of claims in verified basins
85-2-283 - Rulemaking authority