Terms Used In Montana Code > Title 35 > Chapter 2 > Part 3 - Corporate Name, Registered Office and Agent, and Service of Process

• articles: include amended and restated articles of incorporation and articles of merger. See Montana Code 35-2-114
• Assets: (1) The property comprising the estate of a deceased person, or (2) the property in a trust account.
• Corporation: A legal entity owned by the holders of shares of stock that have been issued, and that can own, receive, and transfer property, and carry on business in its own name.
• Corporation: means a public benefit corporation, mutual benefit corporation, or religious corporation. See Montana Code 35-2-114
• Domestic corporation: means a corporation. See Montana Code 35-2-114
• Entity: includes :

  (a)a corporation and foreign corporation;

  (b)a business corporation and foreign business corporation;

  (c)a profit and nonprofit unincorporated association;

  (d)a corporation sole;

  (e)a business trust, an estate, a partnership, a trust, and two or more persons having a joint or common economic interest; and

  (f)a state, the United States, and a foreign government. See Montana Code 35-2-114

• filing: means filed in the office of the secretary of state. See Montana Code 35-2-114
• Foreign corporation: means a corporation that is organized under a law other than the law of this state, including the laws of a federally recognized Indian tribe, and that would be a nonprofit corporation if formed under the laws of this state. See Montana Code 35-2-114
• in writing: means :

  (a)with respect to internal communications, any record in tangible or electronic form or any form allowed under Title 30, chapter 18, part 1; and

  (b)with respect to external communications, tangible records or any form authorized by the external party. See Montana Code 35-2-114

• Jurisdiction: (1) The legal authority of a court to hear and decide a case. Concurrent jurisdiction exists when two courts have simultaneous responsibility for the same case. (2) The geographic area over which the court has authority to decide cases.
• Notice: means that term as described in 35-2-115. See Montana Code 35-2-114
• Partnership: A voluntary contract between two or more persons to pool some or all of their assets into a business, with the agreement that there will be a proportional sharing of profits and losses.
• Person: includes any individual or entity. See Montana Code 35-2-114
• Secretary: means the corporate officer to whom the board of directors has delegated responsibility under 35-2-439(2) for custody of the minutes of the directors' and members' meetings and for authenticating the records of the corporation. See Montana Code 35-2-114
• signed: means , with present intent to authenticate or adopt a record:

  (a)to execute or adopt a tangible symbol; or

  (b)to attach to or logically associate with the record an electronic sound, symbol, or process. See Montana Code 35-2-114

• State: when applied to the different parts of the United States, includes the District of Columbia and the territories. See Montana Code 1-1-201