Legal definition of a building

[vsmot]

Jurisdiction

Montana

Is a covered bench area considered a building?

 

[adjusterjack]

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Building can mean many things under different circumstances.

Now tell us what you are charged with and maybe you'll get better comments.

 

[zddoodah]

Is a covered bench area considered a building?

"Covered bench area" is WAY too vague to be meaningful.

Please describe it.

Also, "considered" by whom and for what purpose?

Why are you asking?

Also, since you're posting in an area relating to criminal law, please consider that this is a public forum and that, if you've been charged with a crime, you may be incriminating yourself by posting here and that this might be a better discussion to have with your attorney.

 

[justblue]

Is something like this what you mean?

 

[adjusterjack]

Or something like this that you often see in parks and back yards.

It will be interesting to see what OP's story is.

If he ever comes back.

 

[Tax Counsel]

Is a covered bench area considered a building?

That depends on the details of the covered bench area and whose definition of a "building" is at issue. In the law, the definitions that are written in the statute or ordinance are what matter, even if that definition is different from what you might think a building is. That means we'd need to know why the definition matters (if you were cited for a violation, for example, that citiation would give the statute or ordinance that defines the violation and exactly what this "building" looked like.