Montana Code Annotated
Part 2. Campaign Finance
13-37-217. Contributions in name of undisclosed principal

13-37-217. Contributions in name of undisclosed principal. (1) Except as provided in subsection (2), a person may not make a contribution of the person's own money or of another person's money to any other person in connection with any election in any other name than that of the person who in truth supplies the money. A person may not knowingly receive a contribution or enter or cause the contribution to be entered in the person's accounts or records in another name than that of the person by whom it was actually furnished.
(2) A joint fundraising committee shall allocate contributions as provided in 13-37-211 to a participant in the name of the original contributor to the joint fundraising committee, and a participant may receive and may enter these contributions into the participant's account. A participant shall account for the original contributors of the gross contributions allocated by the joint fundraising committee in the participant's records.
History: En. Sec. 18, Init. Act, Nov. 1912; re-en. Sec. 10783, R.C.M. 1921; re-en. Sec. 10783, R.C.M. 1935; Sec. 94-1437, R.C.M. 1947; redes. 23-4737 by Sec. 29, Ch. 513, L. 1973; amd. Sec. 54, Ch. 365, L. 1977; R.C.M. 1947, 23-4737; amd. Sec. 254, Ch. 571, L. 1979; amd. Sec. 131, Ch. 56, L. 2009; amd. Sec. 14, Ch. 494, L. 2021.

Structure Montana Code Annotated

Montana Code Annotated

Title 13. Elections

Chapter 37. Control of Campaign Practices

Part 2. Campaign Finance

13-37-201. Campaign treasurer

13-37-202. Deputy campaign treasurers

13-37-203. Qualifications of campaign and deputy campaign treasurers

13-37-204. Removal of campaign and deputy campaign treasurers

13-37-205. Campaign depositories

13-37-206. Exception for certain school districts and certain special districts

13-37-207. Deposit of contributions -- statement of campaign treasurer

13-37-208. Treasurer to keep records

13-37-209. Inspection of records

13-37-210. Repealed

13-37-211. Joint fundraising committee

13-37-212. through 13-37-214 reserved

13-37-215. Repealed

13-37-216. Limitations on contributions -- adjustment

13-37-217. Contributions in name of undisclosed principal

13-37-218. Repealed

13-37-219. Limitations on contributions to candidate when office sought is not known

13-37-220. Child-care expenses

13-37-221. through 13-37-224 reserved

13-37-225. Reports of contributions and expenditures required -- electronic filing and publication

13-37-226. Time for filing reports

13-37-227. Comprehensive report when several candidates or issues involved

13-37-228. Time periods covered by reports

13-37-229. Disclosure requirements for candidates, ballot issue committees, political party committees, and independent committees

13-37-230. Repealed

13-37-231. Reports to be certified as true, complete, and correct

13-37-232. Disclosure requirements for incidental committees

13-37-233. Reports to be filed regardless of tax status

13-37-234. Religious organization exemptions to be broadly construed

13-37-235. through 13-37-239 reserved

13-37-240. Surplus campaign funds

13-37-241. Candidate campaign debt

13-37-242. through 13-37-249 reserved

13-37-250. Voluntary spending limits