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1 HOUSE BILL NO. 931
2 INTRODUCED BY C. SCHOMER, L. BREWSTER, M. VINTON
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4 A BILL FOR AN ACT ENTITLED: “AN ACT CLARIFYING THAT A COMMERCIAL PURPOSE FOR THE
5 COMMERCIAL LEASING OF STATE TRUST LAND MAY INCLUDE DEVELOPMENT OF SINGLE-FAMILY
6 OR MULTIFAMILY RESIDENTIAL DEVELOPMENT UNDER A MASTER LEASE FOR THE PURPOSES OF
7 ATTAINABLE WORKFORCE HOUSING; REVISING DEFINITIONS; AND AMENDING SECTION 77-1-902,
8 MCA.”
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10 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF MONTANA:
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12 Section 77-1-902, MCA, is amended to read:
13 "77-1-902.
14 definitions apply:
15 (1) "Attainable workforce housing" has the same meaning as provided in 90-6-143.
16 (2) "Cancellation" means the cessation of a lessee's possessory rights and privileges under a
17 lease due to the lessee's breach of some term of the lease, applicable statutes, or applicable administrative
18 rules.
19 (2)(3) "Commercial lease" means a contract to use state trust land for a commercial purpose.
20 (3)(4) (a) "Commercial purpose" means an industrial enterprise, retail sales outlet, business and
21 professional office building, warehouse, motel, hotel, hospitality enterprise, commercial or concentrated
22 recreational use, single-family or multifamily residential development authorized under a lease with a master
23 lessee, including a lease executed with a nonprofit corporation for the purposes of developing attainable
24 workforce housing, and other similar business.
25 (b) The term does not include the following uses:
26 (i) agriculture;
27 (ii) grazing;
28 (iii) exploration or development of oil and gas, minerals, and resources from geothermal, wind, or ****
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1 solar;
2 (iv) single-family residences, home sites, and cabin sites licensed or leased pursuant to 77-1-208;
3 and
4 (v) utility rights-of-way.
5 (4)(5) "Land value" is the monetary value of the land determined by an appraisal by a certified
6 general appraiser or a department staff appraiser or by a limited valuation.
7 (5)(6) "Limited valuation" means estimating the land value of commercial lease land by analyzing
8 comparable land valuations conducted within 2 years of the lease commencement date as provided by real
9 estate appraisers, local tax assessors, local realtors, an evaluation of local market rents, or a combination of
10 those methods.
11 (6)(7) "Termination" means the automatic completion or ending of the term of a contract according to
12 its provisions. Upon termination, the lessee ceases to have any possessory rights or privileges under a lease."
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