13-36-203. Form of complaint. (1) A petition or complaint filed under the provisions of this chapter shall be sufficient if it is substantially in the following form:
          In the District Court of the .... Judicial District, for the County of ...., State of Montana.

     A B (or A B and C D), Contestants,
     vs.
     E F, Contestee.
     The petition of contestant (or contestants) above named alleges:
     That an election was held (in the state, district, county, or city of ....), on the .... day of ...., A. D. 19.., for the (nomination of a candidate for) (or election of a) (state the office).
     That .... and .... were candidates at said election, and the board of canvassers has returned the said .... as being duly nominated (or elected) at said election.
     That contestant A B voted (or had a right to vote, as the case may be) at said election (or claims to have had a right to be returned as the nominee or officer elected or nominated at said election, or was a candidate at said election, as the case may be), and said contestant C D (here state in like manner the right of each contestant).
     And said contestant (or contestants) further allege (here state the facts and grounds on which the contestants rely).
     Wherefore, your contestants pray that it may be determined by the court that said .... was not duly nominated (or elected), and that said election was void or that said A B or C D, as the case may be, was duly nominated (or elected), and for such other and further relief as to the court may seem just and legal in the premises.
     (2) Said complaint shall be verified by the affidavit of one of the petitioners in the manner required by law for the verification of complaints in civil cases.

     History: En. Sec. 53, Init. Act, Nov. 1912; re-en. Sec. 10818, R.C.M. 1921; re-en. Sec. 10818, R.C.M. 1935; Sec. 94-1472, R.C.M. 1947; redes. 23-4771 by Sec. 29, Ch. 513, L. 1973; R.C.M. 1947, 23-4771.