Montana Title 7. Local Government § 7-14-4401. Provision of bus service

(a) may contract an indebtedness of the city or town on the credit of the city or town by borrowing money or issuing bonds for the purchase, development, operation, or leasing of motorbuses and buslines for the transportation of passengers within the corporate limits of the cities and towns and to operate the same to any point or points beyond these limits not to exceed 8 miles measured along the route of the busline;  and

(b) must have the power to enter into a contract or contracts or to enter into a lease or a lease and operating agreement with an independent carrier or independent carriers for the transportation of passengers by bus within the corporate limits of the city or town and to and from any point or points beyond the limits not to exceed 8 miles measured along the route of the busline or buslines.