Montana Code 82-2-403. Penalty for commingling foreign substances with ore
82-2-403. Penalty for commingling foreign substances with ore. Any person or persons, corporation, association, or partnership which shall, with intent to defraud, in any manner whatever, introduce any foreign substance into any ore or commingle any foreign substance with any ore intended for sale in any smelter or which any person, association, or corporation shall have undertaken for hire to smelt or into any sample retained for tests or assays, as provided in 82-2-402, shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor and upon conviction thereof shall be punished by a fine of not less than $100 or more than $1,000 or by imprisonment in the county jail for a period of not less than 60 days or more than 12 months or by both such fine and imprisonment.
Terms Used In Montana Code 82-2-403
- Conviction: A judgement of guilt against a criminal defendant.
- 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.
- 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 a corporation or other entity as well as a natural person. See Montana Code 1-1-201