Montana Code Annotated 2023

TITLE 32. FINANCIAL INSTITUTIONS

CHAPTER 1. BANKS AND TRUST COMPANIES

Part 4. Operation and Regulation

Authority Of State Banks To Make Real Estate Loans -- Borrower Insurance Requirements

32-1-430. Authority of state banks to make real estate loans -- borrower insurance requirements. (1) A bank in this state has the same authority to make loans upon real estate that is given by acts of congress or the federal reserve system to national banks or bank members of the federal reserve system.

(2) A bank that is subject to this section may not require a borrower, as a condition of obtaining or maintaining a loan secured by real property, to provide insurance on improvements to real property in an amount that exceeds the reasonable replacement value of the improvements.

History: En. Sec. 27, Ch. 89, L. 1927; re-en. Sec. 6014.31, R.C.M. 1935; amd. Sec. 1, Ch. 23, L. 1941; amd. Sec. 1, Ch. 90, L. 1945; amd. Sec. 1, Ch. 25, L. 1959; amd. Sec. 13, Ch. 431, L. 1975; amd. Sec. 5, Ch. 71, L. 1977; R.C.M. 1947, 5-506(part); amd. Sec. 1, Ch. 324, L. 2009.