Montana Code Annotated 2003

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     70-6-303. When duties of gratuitous depositary cease. The duties of a gratuitous depositary cease upon his:
     (1) restoring the thing deposited to its owner; or
     (2) giving reasonable notice to the owner to remove it and the owner failing to do so within a reasonable time. But an involuntary depositary under 70-6-103(2) cannot give such notice until the emergency which gave rise to the deposit is past.

     History: En. Sec. 2483, Civ. C. 1895; re-en. Sec. 5156, Rev. C. 1907; re-en. Sec. 7659, R.C.M. 1921; Cal. Civ. C. Sec. 1847; Field Civ. C. Sec. 930; re-en. Sec. 7659, R.C.M. 1935; R.C.M. 1947, 20-212.

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