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==Government== {{See also|List of mayors of Billings, Montana}} {| class="toccolours" border="1" cellpadding="2" cellspacing="0" style="border-collapse: collapse; float:right; margin: .5em;" |+ '''City Council:'''<ref>{{cite web|url=http://ci.billings.mt.us/index.aspx?NID=159 |title=City Council Members |publisher=The City of Billings, Montana |access-date=September 12, 2010}} </ref> |- | '''Mayor''' || Bill Cole |- | '''Ward 1''' || Ed Gulick / Kendra Shaw |- | '''Ward 2''' || Jennifer Owen / Roy Neese |- | '''Ward 3''' || Denise Joy / Bill Kennedy |- | '''Ward 4''' || Scott Aspenlieder<ref>{{Cite news |last=Pyburn |first=Evelyn |date=November 10, 2023 |title=Voters Defeat Recreation/Parks Bond in Landslide |pages=1, 3 |work=Yellowstone County News}}</ref> / Dan Tidswell |- | '''Ward 5''' || Mike Boyett / Tom Rupsis |} [[File:Billings, Montana. the new federal courthouse.JPG|thumb|James F. Battin Federal Courthouse]] Billings is the county seat of [[Yellowstone County, Montana|Yellowstone County]], the most populous county in Montana.<ref>{{cite web|title=About Yellowstone County, Montana|url=http://www.co.yellowstone.mt.gov/cofacts.asp|publisher=Yellowstone County, Montana|access-date=February 28, 2013}}</ref> It is also the location of the James F. Battin Federal Courthouse, one of five federal courthouses for the [[United States District Court for the District of Montana|District of Montana]].<ref>{{cite web|title=Courthouse Locations|url=http://www.mtd.uscourts.gov/courthouselist.html|publisher=U. S. District Court of Montana|access-date=February 28, 2013|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130228034615/http://www.mtd.uscourts.gov/courthouselist.html|archive-date=February 28, 2013|url-status=dead}}</ref> Billings is governed via the mayor council system. There are ten members of the city council who are elected from one of five wards with each ward electing two members. The mayor is elected in a citywide vote. Both the mayor and council members are officially nonpartisan. The city charter, also called the Billings, Montana City Code (BMCC) was established 1977. Unlike some other cities in Montana, Billings' city ordinances do not contain provisions that forbid discrimination on the basis of sexual orientation or gender identity.<ref name="KTVQNDOFight2019">{{cite news |last1=Lagge |first1=Mitch |title=Billings City Council member says he's dropping NDO effort |url=https://www.ktvq.com/news/local-news/billings-city-council-member-says-hes-dropping-ndo-effort |access-date=October 2, 2019 |publisher=[[KTVQ]] |date=October 1, 2019}}</ref> An effort to pass a non-discrimination ordinance in Billings failed in 2014, after then-mayor Tom Hanel cast a tie-breaking vote against it at the conclusion of a meeting that lasted 8.5 hours.<ref>{{cite news |last1=Ferguson |first1=Mike |title=Council defeats NDO by 6β5 count |url=https://billingsgazette.com/news/local/government-and-politics/council-defeats-ndo-by---count/article_b0740778-d45d-55de-92a7-78a8ffa02e46.html |access-date=October 2, 2019 |work=[[Billings Gazette]] |date=August 12, 2014}}</ref> An effort to introduce an NDO measure to the City Council was briefly floated in September 2019 by a city council member,<ref>{{cite news |title=Billings City Council to look at non-discrimination ordinance again |url=https://www.ktvq.com/news/local-news/billings-city-council-to-look-at-non-discrimination-ordinance-again |access-date=October 2, 2019 |publisher=[[KTVQ]] |date=September 10, 2019}}</ref> but was abandoned approximately a month later.<ref name="KTVQNDOFight2019"/>
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