Montana

Montana Code Annotated — Title 61, Motor Vehicles

835 sections, each with the official text and a plain-English explanation of what it means for you.

• § 61-3-312 — Renewal of registration -- exceptions -- grace period
• § 61-3-313 — Motor vehicles exempt from registration renewal
• § 61-3-314 — Registration period
• § 61-3-316 — New registrations
• § 61-3-317 — New registration required for transferred motor vehicle -- grace period -- penalty -- display of proof of purchase
• § 61-3-318 — Fleet registration period -- definition
• § 61-3-319 — Registration of custom-built motorcycle -- exemptions
• § 61-3-320 — Registration -- custom vehicle, street rod, originally equipped older vehicle, kit vehicle, or specially constructed vehicle
• § 61-3-321 — Registration fees of vehicles and vessels -- certain vehicles exempt from registration fees -- disposition of fees -- definition
• § 61-3-322 — Registration receipts -- issuance
• § 61-3-323 — Definitions
• § 61-3-324 — Fleet registration -- application -- additions to and deletions from fleet
• § 61-3-325 — Fleet registration -- license plates
• § 61-3-331 — Assignment of license plates
• § 61-3-332 — Standard license plates
• § 61-3-333 — Replacing license plates or decals
• § 61-3-334 — Transfer of ownership of motor vehicle -- duty to remove plates
• § 61-3-335 — Transfer of license plates to another motor vehicle
• § 61-3-336 — Recycling license plates
• § 61-3-337 — Permanently registered motor homes -- plate restriction
• § 61-3-338 — Contract for manufacture and distribution of license plates
• § 61-3-341 — Lost certificates
• § 61-3-344 — Out-of-state USS Montana vehicles -- compliance with local state safety and emissions laws
• § 61-3-345 — Motor vehicle computer system
• § 61-3-346 — County motor vehicle computer committee
• § 61-3-347 — Duties of county motor vehicle computer committee -- definition
• § 61-3-401 — Definitions
• § 61-3-402 — Personalized license plates authorized
• § 61-3-403 — Color and design of personalized license plates -- exception
• § 61-3-404 — Personalized license plates restricted to registered owner
• § 61-3-405 — Application for personalized plates
• § 61-3-406 — Fees for personalized plates -- disposition
• § 61-3-407 — Personalized license plates for disabled -- military, veteran, and generic specialty license plates
• § 61-3-411 — Registration of motor vehicle owned and operated solely as collector's item
• § 61-3-412 — Display of original Montana license plates or collector reproduction license plates on collector's item and general transportation collector's item motor vehicles -- validation
• § 61-3-414 — Special motorcycle license plates for military personnel, veterans, and spouses -- department to design -- fees -- disposition
• § 61-3-415 — Special motorcycle license plates -- department to design -- fees -- distribution
• § 61-3-416 — (Effective January 1, 2026) Special motorcycle license plates -- department of justice to design -- fees -- distribution
• § 61-3-421 — Amateur radio operators -- special license plate
• § 61-3-422 — Issuance -- application -- additional fee
• § 61-3-423 — Limit of one identical pair of plates for each operator
• § 61-3-425 — Special plates -- sale or transfer of auto -- revocation or expiration of radio license
• § 61-3-431 — Special mobile equipment -- exemption from registration and payment of fees and charges -- identification decal -- temporary registration permit -- publicly owned special mobile equipment
• § 61-3-432 — Exemptions of vehicles not capable of operation on highways
• § 61-3-433 — Issuance of identification decal and receipt -- contents
• § 61-3-434 — Attaching receipt to equipment -- inspection
• § 61-3-435 — Certificate of title -- transaction summary receipt -- prima facie evidence
• § 61-3-446 — Retention of special license plates
• § 61-3-448 — Commemorative centennial license plates -- continued use authorized
• § 61-3-455 — Violation a misdemeanor
• § 61-3-456 — Registration of motor vehicle owned and operated by Montana resident on active military duty stationed outside Montana
• § 61-3-458 — Special plates for military personnel, veterans, spouses, and gold star families
• § 61-3-459 — Veterans' cemetery fee for special veteran license plates -- disposition
• § 61-3-460 — Motor vehicle registration fee and veterans' cemetery fee waivers
• § 61-3-461 — Short title
• § 61-3-462 — Definitions
• § 61-3-463 — Collegiate license plates
• § 61-3-464 — Application for collegiate license plates
• § 61-3-465 — Issuance -- application -- additional fee -- disposition
• § 61-3-466 — Personalized collegiate license plates
• § 61-3-467 — Authorization to receive and transmit donations
• § 61-3-468 — Collegiate license plates -- continued use with institution's former name authorized
• § 61-3-472 — Short title
• § 61-3-474 — Responsibility for design of generic specialty license plates -- numbering -- approval -- registration decal -- listing of plate sponsors
• § 61-3-475 — Qualifications and approval of organization as sponsor
• § 61-3-476 — Qualification and approval of governmental body as sponsor
• § 61-3-477 — Generic specialty license plate liaison -- responsibilities
• § 61-3-478 — Generic specialty license plate sponsor fee
• § 61-3-479 — Issuance of generic specialty license plates -- qualifications
• § 61-3-480 — Fees for generic specialty license plates -- disposition
• § 61-3-481 — Generic specialty license plates -- restrictions on use
• § 61-3-501 — When motor vehicle taxes and fees are due
• § 61-3-503 — Assessment -- definition
• § 61-3-507 — Exemption
• § 61-3-509 — Disposition of fees -- responsibility for dishonored payments
• § 61-3-520 — Fees on motor vehicles used exclusively in filming motion pictures or television commercials
• § 61-3-529 — Schedule of fees for buses, motor vehicles having rated capacity of more than 1 ton, and truck tractors -- proration -- exemption
• § 61-3-535 — Motor vehicle registration renewal -- reminder notice and renewal by mail
• § 61-3-537 — Local option motor vehicle tax
• § 61-3-550 — Motor vehicle information technology system account
• § 61-3-551 — Terminated
• § 61-3-562 — Permanent registration -- transfer of light vehicle ownership -- rules
• § 61-3-570 — Local option flat fee
• § 61-3-571 — Definitions
• § 61-3-572 — Additional electric vehicle registration fees -- disposition
• § 61-3-573 — Gross vehicle weight permanent registration fee -- electric vehicles -- plug-in hybrid electric vehicles
• § 61-3-601 — Penalty for violations
• § 61-3-602 — Enforcement
• § 61-3-603 — Penalty for alteration or forgery of certificate of ownership or certificate of title -- assignment
• § 61-3-604 — Penalty for altering identification number
• § 61-3-607 — Penalty for tampering with odometer or violating odometer statement requirements
• § 61-3-701 — Out-of-state vehicles used in gainful occupation to be registered -- reciprocity -- decal fee
• § 61-3-702 — Foreign vehicles to display license plates
• § 61-3-703 — Purpose
• § 61-3-704 — Penalty
• § 61-3-707 — Health care professional exception
• § 61-3-708 — Cooperative or reciprocal registration -- filing of insurance -- fee
• § 61-3-710 — Rulemaking authority
• § 61-3-711 — Declaration of policy
• § 61-3-712 — Definitions
• § 61-3-713 — Authority of department of transportation
• § 61-3-714 — Authority for reciprocity agreements, provisions, reciprocity standards
• § 61-3-715 — Base state registration reciprocity
• § 61-3-716 — Proportional registration of fleet motor vehicles
• § 61-3-717 — Declarations of extent of reciprocity
• § 61-3-718 — Extension of reciprocal privileges to lessees authorized
• § 61-3-719 — Automatic reciprocity
• § 61-3-720 — Proportional registration not exclusive
• § 61-3-721 — Proportional registration of motor fleet vehicles, registration periods, application, fee formula, and payment -- permanent registration of trailer and semitrailer fleets -- transfer of ownership -- transfer of license plates -- definition
• § 61-3-722 — Registration and identification of proportionally registered motor vehicles -- fees -- effect of registration
• § 61-3-723 — Proportional registration not applicable in a single jurisdiction
• § 61-3-724 — Registration of additional fleet motor vehicles
• § 61-3-725 — Withdrawal of fleet motor vehicles -- procedure, credits, and accounting
• § 61-3-726 — New fleet -- estimated mileage
• § 61-3-727 — Fleet registration -- denial when no reciprocity
• § 61-3-728 — Preservation of proportional registration records
• § 61-3-729 — Relation to other state laws
• § 61-3-730 — Suspension of reciprocity benefits
• § 61-3-731 — Agreements to be written, filed, and available for distribution
• § 61-3-732 — Continued validity of existing reciprocity agreements
• § 61-3-733 — Laws supplemental to motor vehicle, trailer, semitrailer, or pole trailer registration laws
• § 61-3-736 — Assessment of proportionally registered interstate motor vehicle fleets -- payment of fees required for registration
• § 61-3-737 — Situs in state of proportionally registered fleets -- collection of fees
• § 61-3-738 — Deposit and distribution of fees on proportionally registered fleets
• § 61-4-101 — Types of licenses and terms -- common application -- bonds -- zoning
• § 61-4-102 — Dealer plates -- restriction of use -- fees -- definitions
• § 61-4-104 — Record of purchase or sale -- definitions
• § 61-4-105 — Criminal penalty -- civil penalty imposed by agency
• § 61-4-106 — Transfer of license
• § 61-4-107 — Cease and desist order
• § 61-4-108 — Exemptions
• § 61-4-109 — Privileges incident to license -- withdrawal upon certain conditions
• § 61-4-110 — Obligation of dealer to pay off liens on motor vehicles accepted in trade, purchase, or consignment -- duties of dealer and secured party -- definition
• § 61-4-111 — Used vehicles -- transfer to and from dealers
• § 61-4-112 — New motor vehicles -- transfers by dealers
• § 61-4-113 — New motor vehicles towed into state to be labeled
• § 61-4-119 — Penalty
• § 61-4-120 — Auto auction -- restrictions -- annual report -- issuance, use, and fees for demonstrator plates
• § 61-4-121 — Temporary registration permit -- limitation on issuance and transfer -- violation -- penalty
• § 61-4-122 — Compliance specialists as peace officers
• § 61-4-123 — Dealer requirements and restrictions -- definitions
• § 61-4-124 — Annual report -- filing fees -- grace period for dealer and demonstrator plates -- restrictions imposed upon failure to file
• § 61-4-125 — Wholesaler restrictions -- demonstrator plates -- annual report
• § 61-4-126 — Claims against dealer, broker, wholesaler, or auto auction bonds
• § 61-4-127 — Broker requirements -- restrictions -- annual report -- fees
• § 61-4-128 — Common standards -- dealer plates -- demonstrator plates -- loaner plates -- identification cards -- fees
• § 61-4-129 — Assignment of demonstrator plates
• § 61-4-130 — Courtesy license plates -- issuance -- restrictions on use
• § 61-4-131 — Definitions
• § 61-4-132 — Right of designated family member to succeed in dealership ownership
• § 61-4-133 — Refusal to honor succession to ownership -- notice required
• § 61-4-134 — Procedure to determine right to succeed
• § 61-4-135 — Written designation of succession unaffected
• § 61-4-136 — Violation -- penalty
• § 61-4-137 — Civil damages
• § 61-4-143 — Unlawful curbstoning of vehicle for sale
• § 61-4-150 — Sale, transfer, or exchange of dealership -- notice -- response to notice
• § 61-4-201 — Definitions
• § 61-4-202 — License requirements
• § 61-4-203 — Administration
• § 61-4-204 — Filing agreement -- product liability
• § 61-4-205 — Limitations on cancellation and termination
• § 61-4-206 — Objections -- hearing
• § 61-4-207 — Determination of good cause
• § 61-4-208 — Prohibited acts -- rights of franchisees
• § 61-4-209 — Cease and desist orders
• § 61-4-210 — Penalties -- administrative penalties
• § 61-4-212 — Damage notice -- definition
• § 61-4-213 — Warranty reimbursement -- definitions
• § 61-4-215 — Mediation of disputes
• § 61-4-216 — Administrative hearings and adjudications -- procedure
• § 61-4-217 — Standing to bring action
• § 61-4-221 — Manufacturer's representative's license plates -- definition
• § 61-4-222 — Fees
• § 61-4-223 — Assignment of numbers
• § 61-4-225 — Loaner license plates -- issuance -- restrictions on use
• § 61-4-301 — Permit and transit plates for new motor vehicles being transported by driveaway or towaway methods -- used mobile homes
• § 61-4-302 — One-trip fee in addition to permit and plate fees payable quarterly -- exception
• § 61-4-303 — Disposition of funds collected
• § 61-4-304 — Fees provided for to be in addition to fees now payable under chapter 12, Title 69
• § 61-4-305 — Driveaway or towaway fees in lieu of other fees payable -- election to pay other fees
• § 61-4-306 — Exemptions from fees
• § 61-4-307 — Display of plates
• § 61-4-308 — List of holders of permits and transit plates
• § 61-4-310 — Single movement permit -- fee -- limitation -- county treasurer to issue
• § 61-4-401 — Declaration of policy
• § 61-4-402 — Definitions
• § 61-4-403 — Certain financing agreements prohibited
• § 61-4-404 — Threats prima facie evidence
• § 61-4-405 — Penalty
• § 61-4-406 — Suit for injury to business or property
• § 61-4-501 — Definitions
• § 61-4-502 — Notice -- warranty enforceable after warranty period -- when
• § 61-4-503 — Replacement for nonconformity to warranty
• § 61-4-504 — Reasonable number of attempts -- presumption
• § 61-4-505 — Dealer exemption -- liability to manufacturer
• § 61-4-506 — Provisions nonexclusive -- applicability of U.C.C
• § 61-4-507 — Exhaustion of remedies under federal law
• § 61-4-511 — Manufacturer's dispute settlement procedure -- certification -- prohibited contents
• § 61-4-512 — Annual audit -- revocation or suspension of certification