30-2A-501. Default -- procedure. (1) Whether the lessor or the lessee is in default under a lease contract is determined by the lease agreement and this chapter.
(2) If the lessor or the lessee is in default under the lease contract, the party seeking enforcement has rights and remedies as provided in this chapter and, except as limited by this chapter, as provided in the lease agreement.
(3) If the lessor or the lessee is in default under the lease contract, the party seeking enforcement may reduce the party's claim to judgment or otherwise enforce the lease contract by self-help or any available judicial procedure or nonjudicial procedure, including administrative proceeding, arbitration, or the like, in accordance with this chapter.
(4) Except as otherwise provided in 30-1-106(1), this chapter, or the lease agreement, the rights and remedies referred to in subsections (2) and (3) of this section are cumulative.
(5) If the lease agreement covers both real property and goods, the party seeking enforcement may proceed under this part as to the goods or under other applicable law as to both the real property and the goods in accordance with that party's rights and remedies in respect of the real property, in which case this part does not apply.
History: En. Sec. 55, Ch. 410, L. 1991.
Structure Montana Code Annotated
Chapter 2A. Uniform Commercial Code Leases
30-2A-501. Default -- procedure
30-2A-502. Notice after default
30-2A-503. Modification or impairment of rights and remedies
30-2A-504. Liquidation of damages
30-2A-506. Statute of limitations
30-2A-507. Proof of market rent -- time and place
30-2A-509. Lessee's rights on improper delivery -- rightful rejection
30-2A-510. Installment lease contracts -- rejection and default
30-2A-511. Merchant lessee's duties as to rightfully rejected goods
30-2A-512. Lessee's duties as to rightfully rejected goods
30-2A-513. Cure by lessor of improper tender or delivery -- replacement
30-2A-514. Waiver of lessee's objections
30-2A-515. Acceptance of goods
30-2A-517. Revocation of acceptance of goods
30-2A-518. Cover -- substitute goods
30-2A-520. Lessee's incidental and consequential damages
30-2A-521. Lessee's right to specific performance or replevin
30-2A-522. Lessee's right to goods on lessor's insolvency
30-2A-524. Lessor's right to identify goods to lease contract
30-2A-525. Lessor's right to possession of goods
30-2A-526. Lessor's stoppage of delivery in transit or otherwise
30-2A-527. Lessor's rights to dispose of goods
30-2A-528. Lessor's damages for nonacceptance, failure to pay, repudiation, or other default
30-2A-529. Lessor's action for rent
30-2A-530. Lessor's incidental damages
30-2A-531. Standing to sue third parties for injury to goods