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Roundup is located in west-central Musselshell County. U.S. Routes 12 and 87 pass through the city. US 12 leads east 102 miles (164 km) to Forsyth and west 69 miles (111 km) to Harlowton, while US 87 leads northwest 75 miles (121 km) to Lewistown and south 49 miles (79 km) to Billings.
Montana's municipalities cover only 1.2% of the state's land mass but are home to 53.8% of its population. [2] The Montana Code 7-1-4124 gives municipal governments in Montana powers to enact ordinances, borrow money, and enact eminent domain among other legal powers. [3]
While Houston has no official zoning ordinances, many private properties have legal covenants or "deed restrictions" that limit the future uses of land, with effects similar to those of zoning systems. [58] [60] Also, the city has enacted development regulations that specify how lots are subdivided, standard setbacks, and parking requirements. [61]
A sundown town is an all-White community that shows or has shown hostility toward non-Whites. Sundown town practices may be evoked in the form of city ordinances barring people of color after dark, exclusionary covenants for housing opportunity, signage warning ethnic groups to vacate, unequal treatment by local law enforcement, and unwritten rules permitting harassment.
In property law, land-related covenants are called "real covenants", " covenants, conditions and restrictions " (CCRs) or "deed restrictions" and are a major form of covenant, typically imposing restrictions on how the land may be used (negative covenants) or requiring a certain continuing action (affirmative covenant).
Musselshell County was created in 1911 by Montana Governor Edwin L. Norris.The area was taken from Fergus, Yellowstone, and Meagher counties. It was named for the Musselshell River which runs southwest–northeast through the county.
The Uniform Environmental Covenants Act (UECA) is one of the uniform acts drafted by the National Conference of Commissioners on Uniform State Laws, a non-profit, American unincorporated association. The act is intended to provide clear rules for perpetual real estate interests – an environmental covenant – to regulate the use of brownfield ...
This is a list of properties and historic districts in Montana that are listed on the National Register of Historic Places. The state's more than 1,100 listings are distributed across all of its 56 counties .