(a) Subject to the terms and conditions of this Chapter, the Department of Transportation administers and enforces this Chapter. The Department must operate and maintain off-street parking facilities acquired and constructed by the County under this Chapter or leased to the County. The Department must review plans for off-street parking facilities that any person submits to qualify for the exemption from the special taxes prescribed in this Chapter. This section does not apply to off-street parking facilities the Revenue Authority leases from the County.
(b) The Department of General Services must acquire and build off-street parking facilities and renovate off-street parking facilities that will not remain open during the work. (Mont. Co. Code 1965, § 44-13; 1969 L.M.C., ch. 44, § 2; 1973 L.M.C., ch. 25, § 8; 1996 L.M.C., ch. 4, § 1; 2008 L.M.C., ch. 5, § 1.)
Editor’s note—2008 L.M.C., ch. 5, §§ 2 and 3, state: Sec. 2. Any responsibility or right granted by law, ordinance, regulation, delegation of authority, contract, or other document to the Department of Public Works and Transportation in connection with designing, building, and maintaining County facilities (except maintaining or renovating public parking facilities under Chapter 60, as provided for under Section 1 of this Act), maintaining County vehicles and equipment, acquiring and disposing of real property not associated with roads, bridges, and other related transportation facilities, and operating mail, printing, and duplication services, is transferred to the Department of General Services.
Sec. 3. Any regulation in effect when this Act takes effect that implements a function transferred to another Department or Office under Section 1 of this Act continues in effect, but any reference in any regulation to the Department from which the function was transferred must be treated as referring to the Department to which the function is transferred. The transfer of a function under this Act does not affect any right of a party to any legal proceeding begun before this Act took effect.