Montana Code Annotated
Part 4. Remedies
70-24-425. Failure of tenant to maintain dwelling -- landlord's right to enter and repair

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

Montana Code Annotated

Title 70. Property

Chapter 24. Residential Landlord and Tenant Act of 1977

Part 4. Remedies

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

70-24-422. Noncompliance of tenant generally -- landlord's right of termination -- damages -- injunction

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

70-24-429. Holdover remedies -- consent to continued occupancy -- tenant's response to service in action for possession

70-24-430. Disposition of personal property abandoned by tenant after termination

70-24-431. Retaliatory conduct by landlord prohibited

70-24-432. Repealed

70-24-433. through 70-24-435 reserved

70-24-436. Repealed

70-24-437. through 70-24-440 reserved

70-24-441. Termination by landlord or tenant

70-24-442. Attorney fees -- costs