Montana legislation · 2025 Regular Session
Montana HB325: Revise covenant laws
Status: Signed into law, May 5, 2025
What the bill says
An act revising covenant laws; and amending section 70-17-210, mca.
From the engrossed text:
AN ACT REVISING COVENANT LAWS; AND AMENDING SECTION 70-17-210, MCA. Section 1. Section 70-17-210, MCA, is amended to read: "70-17-210. Covenant enforcement and abandonment. (1) An association or any party to an interest in land subject to a covenant, condition, or restriction The following persons may initiate a legal action to enforce covenants, conditions, or restrictions. : (a) a party to an agreement containing real property covenants, conditions, or restrictions or the party's successors in interest; (b) the owner of an interest in real property burdened or benefited by a covenant, condition, or restriction; or (c) a homeowners' association or other governing body of a real property development subject to covenants, conditions, or restrictions. (2) A parcel The owner of an interest in real property subject to a covenant, condition, or restriction may assert a defense that a covenant, condition, or restriction has been abandoned for purposes of enforcement by offering evidence that no enforcement action has been undertaken for the prescribed period in 27-2-202. Once a covenant, condition, or restriction is abandoned by a court order or agreed to have been abandoned by the approval of the appropriate association or governing body, by recording a notice of abandonment or amendment in the office of the county clerk and recorder of the county where the developmentproperty is situated, all persons …
Sponsors
- Fitzpatrick, Steve (R, 24) · primary sponsor
- Neumann, Cora (D, 30)
Latest actions
- : Chapter Number Assigned
- : (H) Signed by Governor
- : (H) Transmitted to Governor
- : (S) Signed by President
- : (H) Signed by Speaker
- : (H) Returned from Enrolling
- : (H) Sent to Enrolling
- : (S) 3rd Reading
- : (S) Scheduled for 3rd Reading
- : (S) 2nd Reading
Votes
- Do Concur (April 8, 2025): 47 yea, 1 nay, passed
- Do Concur (April 7, 2025): 48 yea, 1 nay, passed
- Do Pass (February 19, 2025): 98 yea, 2 nay, passed
- Do Pass (February 18, 2025): 97 yea, 2 nay, passed
Subjects: Property, Courts
Common questions
- What is HB325?
- HB325 is a bill in the Montana Legislature (2025 Regular Session): Revise covenant laws.
- What does HB325 do?
- In its own words: An act revising covenant laws; and amending section 70-17-210, mca.
- What is the status of HB325?
- Signed into law as of May 5, 2025. Latest action: Chapter Number Assigned (May 5, 2025).
- Who sponsored HB325?
- Fitzpatrick, Steve (R, 24), with 1 co-sponsor.
- Where is the official record for HB325?
- On the Montana Legislature website: https://bills.legmt.gov/#/laws/bill/2/LC2181
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