Terms Used In Montana Code > Title 39 > Chapter 9 > Part 4 - Infractions -- Penalties

• Appeal: A request made after a trial, asking another court (usually the court of appeals) to decide whether the trial was conducted properly. To make such a request is "to appeal" or "to take an appeal." One who appeals is called the appellant.
• Construction contractor: means a person, firm, or corporation that:

  (a)in the pursuit of an independent business, offers to undertake, undertakes, or submits a bid to construct, alter, repair, add to, subtract from, improve, move, wreck, or demolish for another a building, highway, road, railroad, excavation, or other structure, project, development, or improvement attached to real estate, including the installation of carpeting or other floor covering, the erection of scaffolding or other structures or works, or the installation or repair of roofing or siding; or

  (b)in order to do work similar to that described in subsection (1)(a) upon the construction contractor's property, employs members of more than one trade on a single job or under a single building permit, except as otherwise provided. See Montana Code 39-9-102

• Department: means the department of labor and industry. See Montana Code 39-9-102
• Person: includes a corporation or other entity as well as a natural person. See Montana Code 1-1-201