{"data":{"id":"us-mt/7-12-4354","jurisdiction":"us-mt","citation":"7-12-4354","heading":"Minor modifications exempt.","body":"Nothing in 7-12-4351 through 7-12-4354 prevents the city or town council from eliminating unnecessary lights, relocating individual lights, upgrading lights and lighting-related facilities in the interest of energy conservation, or making other minor modifications in a special improvement lighting district without following the procedures described in 7-12-4351 through 7-12-4353. For the purposes of this section, \"minor modifications\" includes but is not limited to adding properties or lights if the additions:\n(1) reduce assessments within the maintenance district; or\n(2) increase the average assessments within the maintenance district by 3% or less in a fiscal year.","path":["TITLE 7. LOCAL GOVERNMENT","CHAPTER 12. IMPROVEMENT DISTRICTS","Part 43. Special Provisions for Special Improvement Lighting Districts"],"source_url":"https://mca.legmt.gov/bills/mca/title_0070/chapter_0120/part_0430/section_0540/0070-0120-0430-0540.html","current_through":"Montana Code Annotated 2025","vintage":"","retrieved_at":"2026-09-14T04:45:12Z","sha256":"f692fbc4852d0d8fe701d8e9af444dd250106d8724015eccd94de192c59fecbe","source_id":"us-mt","stale":false,"prev":"us-mt/7-12-4353","next":"us-mt/7-12-4401"},"notice":"GroundRules: Original legal text. Not legal advice."}