Montana Code Annotated 2019

TITLE 25. CIVIL PROCEDURE

CHAPTER 3. SERVICE OF PROCESS AND OTHER PAPERS

Part 2. Service by an Officer

Prepayment Of Cost Of Service

25-3-203. Prepayment of cost of service. An officer or registered process server receiving papers for service may not be required to serve papers for service unless the person on whose behalf the service is made or that person's agent or attorney first pays the cost of the service upon a demand by the officer or registered process server.

History: En. Secs. 1, 2, p. 7, L. 1881; re-en. Sec. 76, 1st Div. Comp. Stat. 1887; en. Sec. 640, C. Civ. Proc. 1895; re-en. Sec. 6523, Rev. C. 1907; re-en. Sec. 9120, R.C.M. 1921; re-en. Sec. 9120, R.C.M. 1935; R.C.M. 1947, 93-3016(part); amd. Sec. 12, Ch. 548, L. 1987; amd. Sec. 9, Ch. 405, L. 2007.