Montana § 32-2-903 - Penalty For Transacting Business Without Certificate

§ 32-2-903. Penalty For Transacting Business Without Certificate

Penalty for transacting business without certificate. (1) A person, firm, company, partnership, or corporation, domestic or foreign, advertising that the person or entity is receiving or accepting money or savings for deposit, investment, or otherwise and issuing notes or certificates of deposit for them or advertising that the person or entity is transacting the business of a mutual association or making use of an office sign at the place where the business is transacted, having on it an artificial or corporate name or other words indicating that the place or office is the place or office of a mutual association, or that deposits are received there or payments made on check or that interest is paid on deposits or that certificates of deposit, with or without interest, are being issued or that any other form of mutual association business is transacted, and a person, firm, company, partnership, or corporation, domestic or foreign, using or circulating any letterheads, billheads, blank notes, blank receipts, certificates, or circulars or any written or printed or partly written and partly printed paper whatever, having on it an artificial or corporate name or advertising that the business is the business of a mutual association, must have the proper capital set aside for the purpose of transacting that business and must have received form the department, as provided in this chapter, a certificate to do a mutual association business. (2) A person who violates any provision of this section is subject to the penalties set forth in 32-2-607 (5). (3) Upon action brought by the department, the court may issue an injunction restraining a person, firm, company, partnership, or corporation from further violating any provision of this section and may enter a further order or decree as equality and justice require. (4) A person, firm, company, partnership, or corporation doing any of the things or transacting any of the business defined in this section shall transact that business according to the provisions of this chapter, and the department may examine the accounts, books, papers, cash, and credits of that person, firm, company, partnership, or corporation, domestic or foreign, in order to ascertain whether that person, firm, company, partnership, or corporation has violated or is violating any provisions of this section.