1. MCA Contents
  2. TITLE 28
  3. CHAPTER 10
  4. Part 5
  5. 28-10-501 When agent may delegate powers

Montana Code Annotated 2023

TITLE 28. CONTRACTS AND OTHER OBLIGATIONS

CHAPTER 10. AGENCY

Part 5. Subagents

When Agent May Delegate Powers

28-10-501. When agent may delegate powers. An agent, unless specially forbidden by the principal to do so, can delegate the agent's powers to another person in any of the following cases and in no others:

(1) when the act to be done is purely mechanical;

(2) when the agent cannot and the subagent can lawfully perform the act;

(3) when it is the usage of the place to delegate the powers; or

(4) when the delegation is specially authorized by the principal.

History: En. Sec. 3140, Civ. C. 1895; re-en. Sec. 5456, Rev. C. 1907; re-en. Sec. 7971, R.C.M. 1921; Cal. Civ. C. Sec. 2349; Field Civ. C. Sec. 1259; re-en. Sec. 7971, R.C.M. 1935; R.C.M. 1947, 2-301; amd. Sec. 803, Ch. 56, L. 2009.