Montana Code Annotated 1997

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     1-1-207. Miscellaneous terms. (1) Unless the context requires otherwise, the following definitions apply in the Montana Code Annotated:
     (a) "Bribe" means anything of value or advantage, present or prospective, or any promise or undertaking to give anything of value or advantage, that is asked, given, or accepted with a corrupt intent to unlawfully influence the person to whom it is given in the person's action, vote, or opinion in any public or official capacity.
     (b) "Montana state prison" means the Montana state prison as defined in 53-30-101(3)(b).
     (c) "Peace officer" has the meaning as defined in 46-1-202.
     (d) "State prison" or "prison" means:
     (i) the Montana state prison as described in 53-30-101(1);
     (ii) the Montana women's prison as defined in 53-30-101(3)(c);
     (iii) a Montana regional correctional facility;
     (iv) a detention center in another jurisdiction detaining inmates from Montana pursuant to 53-30-106; or
     (v) a combination of the facilities listed in this subsection (1)(d).
     (e) "Vessel", when used in reference to shipping, includes ships of all kinds, steamboats and steamships, canal boats, and every structure adapted to be navigated from place to place.
     (2) Subsections (1)(b) and (1)(d) do not authorize a court to sentence a person to a correctional facility listed in those subsections.

     History: En. Sec. 16, Pol. C. 1895; re-en. Sec. 16, Rev. C. 1907; amd. Sec. 4, Ch. 4, L. 1921; re-en. Sec. 16, R.C.M. 1921; Cal. Pol. C. Sec. 17; re-en. Sec. 16, R.C.M. 1935; amd. Sec. 1, Ch. 25, L. 1947; amd. Sec. 11-114, Ch. 264, L. 1963; amd. Sec. 3, Ch. 309, L. 1977; R.C.M. 1947, 19-103(part), (11), (12), (24); amd. Sec. 249, Ch. 800, L. 1991; amd. Sec. 1, Ch. 189, L. 1997.

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