The COVID Project
The record
- Jurisdiction
- Montana
- Level
- State
- Authority
- Mont. Code Ann. Title 10, ch. 3, part 1
- Issued
- 2026-09-28 Sept. 28, 2026
- Effective
- standing (read as 2026-09-28)
- End
- standing
- In force
- Standing since Sept. 28, 2026 (a statutory duty; in force throughout the six quarters)
- Quarters
- 2020 Q22020 Q32020 Q42021 Q12021 Q22021 Q3
2020 Q22020 Q32020 Q42021 Q12021 Q22021 Q3
- Limitation types
- Emergency declarationStanding duty
- Addressees
- persons generally (definitional predicate of the emergency powers)
- Character
- statutory framework
- Collection
- Standing duties: Montana DUT-MT
Operative words
(4) "Disaster" means the occurrence or imminent threat of widespread or severe damage, injury, or loss of life or property resulting from any natural or artificial cause, including... outbreak of disease... (8) "Emergency" means the imminent threat of a disaster causing immediate peril to life or property that timely action can avert or minimize.
Penalty
What it required
The statutory predicate the Directives recited ('Montana law provides that these authorities will be utilized to respond to an "outbreak of disease," § 10-3-103(4), MCA'): an outbreak of disease is a 'disaster' within the Act, which is what made the powers of 10-3-104 and the Title 50 measures available against every person and premises in the State from March 12, 2020 to June 30, 2021. Character as recorded: statutory_framework (definition).
Retrieval noteCharacter coded statutory_duty for want of a definitional code; the record is the predicate of the duties in DUT-MT-008.