70-24-425. Failure of tenant to maintain dwelling -- landlord's right to enter and repair. If there is noncompliance by the tenant with 70-24-321 affecting health and safety that can be remedied by repair, replacement of a damaged item, or cleaning and the tenant fails to comply as promptly as conditions require in case of emergency or within 14 days after written notice by the landlord specifying the breach and requesting that the tenant remedy it within that period of time, the landlord may enter the dwelling unit and cause the work to be done in a workmanlike manner and submit an itemized bill for the actual and reasonable cost, the fair and reasonable cost, or the fair and reasonable value thereof as rent on the next date periodic rent is due or, if the rental agreement has terminated, for immediate payment.
History: En. 42-434 by Sec. 34, Ch. 313, L. 1977; R.C.M. 1947, 42-434.
Structure Montana Code Annotated
Chapter 24. Residential Landlord and Tenant Act of 1977
70-24-401. Administration of remedies -- enforcement
70-24-402. Settlement of disputed claim or right
70-24-403. Prohibited provision in rental agreement -- unenforceability -- damages
70-24-404. Unconscionability -- court discretion to refuse enforcement
70-24-405. Failure of landlord to deliver possession -- tenant's remedies
70-24-406. Failure of landlord to maintain premises -- tenant's remedies
70-24-407. Damages for minor violations by landlord
70-24-408. Purposeful or negligent failure to provide essential services -- tenant's remedies
70-24-409. Fire or casualty damage -- rights of tenant
70-24-410. Unlawful or unreasonable entry by landlord -- tenant's remedies
70-24-411. Unlawful ouster, exclusion, or diminution of service -- tenant's remedies
70-24-412. through 70-24-420 reserved
70-24-421. Action for nonpayment of rent -- tenant's counterclaim
70-24-423. Waiver of landlord's right to terminate for breach
70-24-424. Refusal of access -- landlord's remedies
70-24-425. Failure of tenant to maintain dwelling -- landlord's right to enter and repair
70-24-426. Remedies for absence or abandonment
70-24-427. Landlord's remedies after termination -- action for possession
70-24-428. Landlord's recovery of possession limited
70-24-430. Disposition of personal property abandoned by tenant after termination
70-24-431. Retaliatory conduct by landlord prohibited
70-24-433. through 70-24-435 reserved
70-24-437. through 70-24-440 reserved