Montana Code 30-2A-512. Lessee’s duties as to rightfully rejected goods
30-2A-512. Lessee’s duties as to rightfully rejected goods. (1) Except as otherwise provided with respect to goods that threaten to decline in value speedily (30-2A-511) and subject to any security interest of a lessee (30-2A-508(5)):
Terms Used In Montana Code 30-2A-512
- Goods: means all things that are movable at the time of identification to the lease contract, or are fixtures (30-2A-309), but the term does not include money, documents, instruments, accounts, chattel paper, general intangibles, or minerals or the like, including oil and gas, before extraction. See Montana Code 30-2A-103
- Lessee: means a person who acquires the right to possession and use of goods under a lease. See Montana Code 30-2A-103
- Lessor: means a person who transfers the right to possession and use of goods under a lease. See Montana Code 30-2A-103
- Supplier: means a person from whom a lessor buys or leases goods to be leased under a finance lease. See Montana Code 30-2A-103
(a)the lessee, after rejection of goods in the lessee’s possession, shall hold them with reasonable care at the lessor‘s or the supplier‘s disposition for a reasonable time after the lessee’s seasonable notification of rejection;
(b)if the lessor or the supplier gives no instructions within a reasonable time after notification of rejection, the lessee may store the rejected goods for the lessor’s or the supplier’s account, ship them to the lessor or the supplier, or dispose of them for the lessor’s or the supplier’s account with reimbursement in the manner provided in 30-2A-511; but
(c)the lessee has no further obligations with regard to goods rightfully rejected.
(2)Action by the lessee pursuant to subsection (1) is not acceptance or conversion.