80-2-242. Appraisers -- appointment -- qualifications -- duties. - Montana Statutes

     80-2-242. Appraisers -- appointment -- qualifications -- duties. (1) The department of agriculture shall as soon as practicable each year retain a sufficient number of appraisers to appraise all losses by hail incurred under this part in the various counties. The persons so appointed shall be actively engaged in farming or shall have had practical experience in farming.
     (2) The board may call on one or more of the duly appointed appraisers for the adjustment of each and every loss, and the said appraisers shall promptly report their findings to the board according to the rules provided by the board.
     (3) No appraiser who shall be a relative, attorney, agent, employee, or creditor or in any manner interested by lien, mortgage, or otherwise in the crop injured or destroyed shall assist in adjusting any such loss.
     (4) The board may send any duly appointed appraiser or appraisers into any county as the occasion may require.

     History: En. Sec. 8, Ch. 169, L. 1917; amd. Sec. 5, Ch. 34, L. 1919; amd. Sec. 4, Ch. 141, L. 1921; re-en. Sec. 359, R.C.M. 1921; re-en. Sec. 359, R.C.M. 1935; amd. Sec. 1, Ch. 79, L. 1973; R.C.M. 1947, 82-1515; amd. Sec. 12, Ch. 691, L. 1983.