Montana Code Annotated 2019

TITLE 13. ELECTIONS

CHAPTER 26. CONVENTION TO RATIFY AMENDMENTS TO UNITED STATES CONSTITUTION

Part 1. Ratification of Amendments

Federal Acts To Supersede State Provisions Concerning Amendments

13-26-111. Federal acts to supersede state provisions concerning amendments. If congress, by resolution or statute, prescribes how the convention shall be constituted and held, this chapter is inoperative, and the convention shall be constituted and held as congress directs. All state officers are directed to take action to constitute the convention as authorized by congress and act as if acting under state statute.

History: En. Sec. 246, Ch. 368, L. 1969; R.C.M. 1947, 23-4611.