Montana Code Annotated
Part 4. Miscellaneous Regulations
61-9-426. Air-conditioning equipment -- use of flammable refrigerant prohibited

61-9-426. Air-conditioning equipment -- use of flammable refrigerant prohibited. (1) Air-conditioning equipment must be maintained with due regard for the safety of the occupants of the vehicle, service technicians, and the public.
(2) Air-conditioning equipment may contain only refrigerant that has been included in the list published by the United States environmental protection agency as a safe alternative motor vehicle air-conditioning substitute for chlorofluorocarbon-12 pursuant to 42 U.S.C. 7671k(c).
(3) A person may not equip or maintain a motor vehicle or special mobile equipment with air-conditioning equipment or refrigerants that do not comply with the requirements of this section.
(4) As used in 61-9-427 and this section, "air-conditioning equipment" means mechanical, belt-driven, vapor compression refrigerant equipment that is used to cool the driver's compartment or passenger compartment of a motor vehicle or special mobile equipment.
History: En. Sec. 1, Ch. 418, L. 2003; amd. Sec. 223, Ch. 542, L. 2005.

Structure Montana Code Annotated

Montana Code Annotated

Title 61. Motor Vehicles

Chapter 9. Vehicle Equipment

Part 4. Miscellaneous Regulations

61-9-401. Horns, security alarms, and warning devices

61-9-402. Audible and visual signals on police, emergency vehicles, and on-scene command vehicles -- immunity

61-9-403. Mufflers -- prevention of noise

61-9-404. Mirrors

61-9-405. Windshields required, exception -- unobstructed and equipped with wipers -- window tinting and sunscreening -- restrictions -- exemptions

61-9-406. Restrictions as to tire equipment -- particular tires, chains, or traction devices -- definitions

61-9-407. Fenders, splash aprons, or flaps required on certain vehicles -- dimension and location

61-9-408. Safety glazing material in motor vehicles

61-9-409. Seatbelts required in vehicles manufactured after 1964

61-9-410. Repealed

61-9-411. Certain vehicles to carry flares or other warning devices

61-9-412. Display of warning devices when vehicle disabled

61-9-413. Vehicles transporting explosives

61-9-414. Logging trucks

61-9-415. Slow-moving vehicles

61-9-416. Commercial tow truck definition -- requirements

61-9-417. Headgear required for minor motorcycle riders

61-9-418. Motorcycle and quadricycle noise suppression devices -- motorcycle and quadricycle spark arrester

61-9-419. "Properly restrained" defined

61-9-420. Child safety restraint systems -- standards -- exemptions

61-9-421. Certain vehicles exempt

61-9-422. Evidence admissible without presumption of negligence

61-9-423. Penalty

61-9-424. and 61-9-425 reserved

61-9-426. Air-conditioning equipment -- use of flammable refrigerant prohibited

61-9-427. Air-conditioning equipment -- sale prohibited

61-9-428. Window tinting and sunscreening -- waiver -- conditions

61-9-429. Window tinting and sunscreening -- penalty

61-9-430. Bumpers

61-9-431. Use of warning signs, flares, reflectors, lanterns, and flag persons

61-9-432. Low-speed and medium-speed electric vehicles -- required equipment

61-9-433. and 61-9-434 reserved

61-9-435. Exhaust noise limitation