Montana Code Annotated 1999

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     32-8-506. Customer authorization -- form -- notice to customer. (1) A director, executive officer, controlling person, or employee of a foreign capital depository may disclose or authorize another to disclose a financial record and an officer, employee, or agent of a supervisory, state, or local agency may obtain a financial record if the customer to whom the record relates has authorized disclosure of the record on a form provided by the depository that:
     (a) is signed and dated by the customer;
     (b) authorizes disclosure for a period set forth in the authorization statement;
     (c) specifies the name of the person, supervisory agency, state agency, or local agency to whom or to which disclosure is authorized and, if applicable, the statutory purpose for which the information is to be obtained; and
     (d) identifies the financial record authorized to be disclosed.
     (2) A foreign capital depository may not require a customer authorization to be signed by a customer as a condition of doing business with the depository.
     (3) A customer may revoke an authorization by written notice to the foreign capital depository. The notice must contain a copy of the authorization to which it relates or contain the information originally required in the authorization to which it relates, must be signed and dated by the customer, and must contain a clear statement revoking the previous authorization.
     (4) (a) A supervisory, state, or local agency obtaining a financial record pursuant to a customer authorization shall notify the customer in writing of the receipt of the financial record within 30 days of the agency's receipt of the financial record. However, by application to a judge of a court of competent jurisdiction in the county in which the financial record is located and upon a showing of good cause to believe that disclosure would impede the investigation, the notification requirements of this subsection (4)(a) may be extended for up to two additional 30-day periods. Thereafter, by application to a court upon a showing of extreme necessity for nondisclosure, the notification requirements of this subsection (4)(a) may be extended for up to three additional 30-day periods. At the end of that period or periods, the agency shall inform the customer that the customer has the right to make a written request as to the reason why the agency obtained the record. The notice must specify the financial record that was obtained and, if requested, the reason why the record was obtained.
     (b) Whenever practicable, an application for an additional extension of the notification time provided in subsection (4)(a) must be made to the judge who granted the first extension of notification time. In deciding whether to grant an extension of the notification time, the judge shall provide the customer with prompt notification, consistent with the purpose of this part.

     History: En. Sec. 34, Ch. 382, L. 1997.

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