Terms Used In Montana Code > Title 2 > Chapter 18 > Part 5 - Travel, Meals, and Lodging

• Advertisement: means a commercial message in any medium that aids, promotes, or assists, directly or indirectly, a rental-purchase agreement but does not include price tags, window signs, or other in-store merchandising aids. See Montana Code 30-19-103
• agreement: means an agreement between a lessor and a consumer that has the following characteristics:

  (a)the agreement governs the use of personal property by a person primarily for personal, family, or household purposes;

  (b)the agreement is entered into for an initial period of 4 months or less and is automatically renewable with each payment after the initial period;

  (c)the agreement does not obligate or require the consumer to continue renting or using the property beyond the initial period; and

  (d)the agreement permits the consumer to become the owner of the property. See Montana Code 30-19-103

• Amendment: A proposal to alter the text of a pending bill or other measure by striking out some of it, by inserting new language, or both. Before an amendment becomes part of the measure, thelegislature must agree to it.
• Ammunition components: means propellants, primers, and cartridge cases. See Montana Code 30-20-203
• Biological sample: means any human material known to contain DNA, including tissue, blood, urine, or saliva. See Montana Code 30-23-102
• Black powder: means a propellant made from potassium or sodium nitrate, charcoal, and sulfur or a substitute for black powder made differently that is used for conventional small arms or antique or replica arms. See Montana Code 30-20-203
• Cartridge cases: means the casings that contain and hold together the propellant, primer, and bullet, which may be formed from brass, aluminum, steel, plastic, or some combination of those or other materials. See Montana Code 30-20-203
• Cash price: means the price at which the lessor would have sold the property to the consumer for cash on the date of the rental-purchase agreement. See Montana Code 30-19-103
• Consumer: means an individual who is a resident of this state. See Montana Code 30-23-102
• Consumer: means a person who rents personal property under a rental-purchase agreement to be used primarily for personal, family, or household purposes. See Montana Code 30-19-103
• Consummation: means the time that a consumer becomes contractually obligated by signing a rental-purchase agreement. See Montana Code 30-19-103
• Contract: A legal written agreement that becomes binding when signed.
• 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.
• Damages: Money paid by defendants to successful plaintiffs in civil cases to compensate the plaintiffs for their injuries.
• Dependent: A person dependent for support upon another.
• DNA: means deoxyribonucleic acid. See Montana Code 30-23-102
• Entity: means a partnership, corporation, association, or public or private organization of any character that:

  (a)offers consumer genetic testing products or services directly to a consumer; or

  (b)collects, uses, or analyzes genetic data. See Montana Code 30-23-102

• Evidence: Information presented in testimony or in documents that is used to persuade the fact finder (judge or jury) to decide the case for one side or the other.
• Express consent: means a consumer's affirmative response to a clear, meaningful, and prominent notice regarding the collection, use, or disclosure of genetic data for a specific purpose. See Montana Code 30-23-102
• Fair market value: The price at which an asset would change hands in a transaction between a willing, informed buyer and a willing, informed seller.
• Federal Reserve System: The central bank of the United States. The Fed, as it is commonly called, regulates the U.S. monetary and financial system. The Federal Reserve System is composed of a central governmental agency in Washington, D.C. (the Board of Governors) and twelve regional Federal Reserve Banks in major cities throughout the United States. ^{Source: OCC}
• Firearms accessories: means items that are used in conjunction with or mounted upon a firearm but are not essential to the basic function of a firearm, including but not limited to telescopic or laser sights, magazines, flash or sound suppressors, folding or aftermarket stocks and grips, speedloaders, ammunition carriers, and lights for target illumination. See Montana Code 30-20-103
• Forbearance: A means of handling a delinquent loan. A
• Generic and insignificant parts: includes but is not limited to springs, screws, nuts, and pins. See Montana Code 30-20-103
• Genetic data: means any data, regardless of format, concerning a consumer's genetic characteristics. See Montana Code 30-23-102
• Genetic testing: means :

  (a)a laboratory test of a consumer's complete DNA, regions of DNA, chromosomes, genes, or gene products to determine the presence of genetic characteristics of a consumer; or

  (b)an interpretation of a consumer's genetic data. See Montana Code 30-23-102

• Governmental agency: means an executive, legislative, or judicial agency, department, board, commission, authority, institution, or instrumentality of the federal government or of a state or of a county, municipality, or other political subdivision of a state. See Montana Code 30-23-102
• Guardian: A person legally empowered and charged with the duty of taking care of and managing the property of another person who because of age, intellect, or health, is incapable of managing his (her) own affairs.
• Juror: A person who is on the jury.
• Lease: A contract transferring the use of property or occupancy of land, space, structures, or equipment in consideration of a payment (e.g., rent). ^{Source: OCC}
• Legislative session: That part of a chamber's daily session in which it considers legislative business (bills, resolutions, and actions related thereto).
• Lessor: means a person who regularly provides the use of property through rental-purchase agreements and to whom rent payments are initially payable on the face of the rental-purchase agreement. See Montana Code 30-19-103
• Manufactured: means that a firearm, a firearm accessory, or ammunition has been created from basic materials for functional usefulness, including but not limited to forging, casting, machining, or other processes for working materials. See Montana Code 30-20-103
• Mortgage: The written agreement pledging property to a creditor as collateral for a loan.
• 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: means an individual, partnership, corporation, association, business, business trust, or legal representative of an organization. See Montana Code 30-23-102
• Person: includes a corporation or other entity as well as a natural person. See Montana Code 1-1-201
• Personal property: All property that is not real property.
• Personal property: means money, goods, chattels, things in action, and evidences of debt. See Montana Code 1-1-205
• Power of attorney: A written instrument which authorizes one person to act as another's agent or attorney. The power of attorney may be for a definite, specific act, or it may be general in nature. The terms of the written power of attorney may specify when it will expire. If not, the power of attorney usually expires when the person granting it dies. ^{Source: OCC}
• Primary business: means a manufacturer in which more than one-half of its product produced is and more than one-half of its gross income comes from sales of ammunition components. See Montana Code 30-20-203
• Printing: means the act of reproducing a design on a surface by any process. See Montana Code 1-1-203
• Process: means a writ or summons issued in the course of judicial proceedings. See Montana Code 1-1-202
• Processor: means a person that processes genetic data on behalf of an entity pursuant to a contract between the entity and the processor that prohibits the processor from retaining, using, or disclosing the genetic data, or any information regarding the identity of the consumer, including whether that consumer has solicited or received genetic testing, as applicable, for any purpose other than for the specific purpose of performing the services specified in the contract. See Montana Code 30-23-102
• Propellant: includes smokeless propellant and black powder. See Montana Code 30-20-203
• Property: means real and personal property. See Montana Code 1-1-205
• Real property: Land, and all immovable fixtures erected on, growing on, or affixed to the land.
• Real property: means lands, tenements, hereditaments, and possessory title to public lands. See Montana Code 1-1-205
• Settlement: Parties to a lawsuit resolve their difference without having a trial. Settlements often involve the payment of compensation by one party in satisfaction of the other party's claims.
• Small arms: means pistols, revolvers, rifles, shotguns, and other similar devices that are portable by one person, the possession and use of which are protected by Article II, section 12, of the Montana constitution. See Montana Code 30-20-203
• Small arms primers: means the priming component for a round of ammunition intended for use in small arms that is usually made of a cup, an anvil, and a shock-sensitive chemical compound and is designed to ignite the propellant in an ammunition cartridge for conventional small arms. See Montana Code 30-20-203
• Smokeless propellant: means a chemical substance designed to expel a projectile from small arms through burning and expansion at a quick but controlled burning rate. See Montana Code 30-20-203
• 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
• Third party: means a person other than the consumer, entity, or processor. See Montana Code 30-23-102
• Uniform Commercial Code: A set of statutes enacted by the various states to provide consistency among the states' commercial laws. It includes negotiable instruments, sales, stock transfers, trust and warehouse receipts, and bills of lading. ^{Source: OCC}
• United States: includes the District of Columbia and the territories. See Montana Code 1-1-201
• Usury: Charging an illegally high interest rate on a loan. ^{Source: OCC}
• Writing: includes printing. See Montana Code 1-1-203