30-10-325. Operating pyramid promotional scheme unlawful, MCA

Montana Code Annotated 2019

TITLE 30. TRADE AND COMMERCE

CHAPTER 10. SECURITIES REGULATION

Part 3. Offenses, Penalties, and Immunities

Operating Pyramid Promotional Scheme Unlawful

30-10-325. Operating pyramid promotional scheme unlawful. (1) A person may not conduct or promote or cause to be conducted or promoted a pyramid promotional scheme.

(2) A person who willfully violates the provisions of subsection (1) shall, for each participant giving consideration, be fined an amount not more than $100,000 or be imprisoned for not more than 10 years, or both.

(3) A person who violates the provisions of subsection (1) shall, for each participant giving consideration, be assessed a civil penalty in an administrative proceeding in an amount not to exceed $10,000.

History: En. Sec. 2, Ch. 74, L. 1999; amd. Sec. 2, Ch. 446, L. 2003.