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MDT-backed bill would remove narrative route descriptions and rely on right-of-way plans

House Committee on Transportation
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Summary

House Bill 387, requested by MDT, would eliminate a separate narrative route description filed with county clerks and rely on detailed right-of-way plan sheets; MDT and a title-examiner/land-surveyor discussed whether title companies and indexing would still work without the narrative.

Representative Denise Baum introduced House Bill 387 at the request of the Montana Department of Transportation to remove the statutory requirement that agencies file a narrative route description with county clerk and recorder offices and instead rely on the detailed right-of-way plan.

"Right-of-way plans provide all the necessary information and details that identify and describe the parcels that…

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