{"data":{"id":"us-mt/7-13-4401","jurisdiction":"us-mt","citation":"7-13-4401","heading":"Water regulation.","body":"The city or town council has power to provide for the cleaning of waters, watercourses, and streams within the city or to alter, straighten, or widen the same and to provide for the draining and filling in of ponds, wells, or shafts on private property when necessary to the public health or public welfare.","path":["TITLE 7. LOCAL GOVERNMENT","CHAPTER 13. UTILITY SERVICES","Part 44. Water Supply and Regulation"],"source_url":"https://mca.legmt.gov/bills/mca/title_0070/chapter_0130/part_0440/section_0010/0070-0130-0440-0010.html","current_through":"Montana Code Annotated 2025","vintage":"","retrieved_at":"2026-09-14T04:45:20Z","sha256":"3199d22eaa45cb2b09e6dcc7499d93068296c9e403310ab420dd4e4ce9be0b8d","source_id":"us-mt","stale":false,"prev":"us-mt/7-13-4346","next":"us-mt/7-13-4402"},"notice":"GroundRules: Original legal text. Not legal advice."}