70-17-101. Servitudes attached to land. - Montana Statutes

     70-17-101. Servitudes attached to land. The following land burdens or servitudes upon land may be attached to other land as incidents or appurtenances and are then called easements:
     (1) the right of pasture;
     (2) the right of fishing;
     (3) the right of taking game;
     (4) the right-of-way;
     (5) the right of taking water, wood, minerals, and other things;
     (6) the right of transacting business upon land;
     (7) the right of conducting lawful sports upon land;
     (8) the right of receiving air, light, or heat from or over or discharging the same upon or over land;
     (9) the right of receiving water from or discharging the same upon land;
     (10) the right of flooding land;
     (11) the right of having water flow without diminution or disturbance of any kind;
     (12) the right of using a wall as a party wall;
     (13) the right of receiving more than natural support from adjacent land or things affixed thereto;
     (14) the right of having the whole of a division fence maintained by a coterminous owner;
     (15) the right of having public conveyances stopped or of stopping the same on land;
     (16) the right of a seat in church;
     (17) the right of burial;
     (18) the right of conserving open space to preserve park, recreational, historic, aesthetic, cultural, and natural values on or related to land;
     (19) the right of receiving sunlight or wind for recognized nonfossil forms of energy generation; and
     (20) the right of using land adjacent to a firearms shooting range as a range safety zone.

     History: En. Sec. 1250, Civ. C. 1895; re-en. Sec. 4507, Rev. C. 1907; re-en. Sec. 6749, R.C.M. 1921; Cal. Civ. C. Sec. 801; Field Civ. C. Sec. 245; re-en. Sec. 6749, R.C.M. 1935; amd. Sec. 16, Ch. 489, L. 1975; R.C.M. 1947, 67-601; amd. Sec. 1, Ch. 209, L. 1983; amd. Sec. 1, Ch. 111, L. 1993.