Terms Used In Montana Code > Title 22 > Chapter 2 - Arts

• Art dealer: means a person engaged in the business of selling works of fine art, other than a person exclusively engaged in the business of selling goods at public auction. See Montana Code 22-2-501
• Artist: means a practitioner in the visual arts generally recognized by the practitioner's peers or critics as a professional who produces works of art. See Montana Code 22-2-403
• Artist: means a person who creates a work of fine art or, if the person is deceased, the person's heir, devisee, or personal representative. See Montana Code 22-2-501
• Bequest: Property gifted by will.
• Consignment: means that no title to, estate in, or right to possession of fine art superior to that of the consignor vests in the consignee, notwithstanding the consignee's power or authority to transfer and convey to a third person all of the right, title, and interest of the consignor in and to such fine art. See Montana Code 22-2-501
• Donor: The person who makes a gift.
• Fine art: means a painting, sculpture, drawing, work of graphic art (including an etching, lithograph, signed limited edition offset print, silk screen, or a work of graphic art of like nature), a work of calligraphy, photographs, original works in ceramics, wood, metals, glass, plastic, wax, stone, or leather, or a work in mixed media (including a collage, assemblage, or any combination of the art media mentioned in this subsection). See Montana Code 22-2-501
• Gift: A voluntary transfer or conveyance of property without consideration, or for less than full and adequate consideration based on fair market value.
• Legacy: A gift of property made by will.
• Life estate: A property interest limited in duration to the life of the individual holding the interest (life tenant).
• New state building: means any structure to be built, remodeled, or renovated with money appropriated by the legislature that is, in the opinion of the architecture and engineering division of the department of administration, appropriate for the inclusion of works of art. See Montana Code 22-2-403
• Person: means an individual, partnership, corporation, association, or other group, however organized. See Montana Code 22-2-501
• Remainder: An interest in property that takes effect in the future at a specified time or after the occurrence of some event, such as the death of a life tenant.
• Sex: means the organization of the body parts and gametes for reproduction in human beings and other organisms. See Montana Code 1-1-201
• Sole ownership: The type of property ownership in which one individual holds legal title to the property and has full control of it.
• Usage: means a reasonable and lawful public custom concerning transactions of the same nature as those which are to be affected thereby, existing at the place where the obligation is to be performed, and either known to the parties or so well established, general, and uniform that the parties must be presumed to have acted with reference thereto. See Montana Code 1-1-206
• Work of art: means any work of visual art, including but not limited to a drawing, painting, mural, fresco, sculpture, mosaic, photograph, work of calligraphy, work of graphic art (including an etching, lithograph, offset print, or silk screen), craft (including crafts in clay, textile, fiber, wood, metal, plastic, or glass), or mixed media (including a collage, assemblage, or any combination of art media). See Montana Code 22-2-403