Montana Code Annotated 2023

TITLE 15. TAXATION

CHAPTER 24. SPECIAL PROPERTY TAX APPLICATIONS

Part 2. Mobile Homes, Manufactured Homes, and Housetrailers

Failure To Display Or Produce Declaration, Sticker, Or Receipt -- Penalty

15-24-204. Failure to display or produce declaration, sticker, or receipt -- penalty. (1) Whoever makes a false or fraudulent declaration of destination or, when required, fails to execute a declaration of destination or fails to display or produce a declaration of destination or tax-paid receipt, if a tax-paid receipt is required, is guilty of a misdemeanor and upon conviction is punishable by imprisonment in a county jail for not more than 6 months or by a fine of not more than $500, or both.

(2) Whoever fails to display a property-tax-paid sticker while in the process of moving a mobile home, manufactured home, or housetrailer or to produce a property-tax-paid receipt from 15 days after the due date for personal property taxes of 1 year to the due date for personal property taxes of the next year, when the display of a tax-paid receipt is required, commits a misdemeanor punishable by a fine of not less than $10 or more than $50 or confinement in the county jail for not more than 30 days or both a fine and imprisonment.

History: En. Sec. 4, Ch. 275, L. 1965; amd. Sec. 7, Ch. 296, L. 1967; amd. Sec. 3, Ch. 450, L. 1975; R.C.M. 1947, 84-6604; amd. Sec. 2, Ch. 419, L. 1987; amd. Sec. 2, Ch. 238, L. 1989; amd. Sec. 14, Ch. 200, L. 1997.