2.65.301    PROTECTION OF SITE

(1) After notification of a discovery, the person in charge of any survey, excavation, construction, agricultural practices or like activity on private or state lands which has disturbed or threatens to disturb human skeletal remains, a burial site or burial material, shall immediately take all reasonable steps to secure preservation of the site in situ by immediately stopping all activity destructive to it and by making a reasonable effort to secure it from vandalism, theft, erosion and other harmful disturbance.

History: 22-3-804, MCA; IMP, 22-3-805, 22-3-808, 22-3-809, MCA; NEW, 1998 MAR p. 478, Eff. 2/13/98; TRANS, from Commerce, 2001 MAR p. 2409; TRANS, from ARM 2.65.102, 2013 MAR p. 785, Eff. 5/10/13.