Montana Code Annotated 2019

TITLE 30. TRADE AND COMMERCE

CHAPTER 11. SALES

Part 3. Merchant's Rights

Obligation To Keep Merchandise In Full View

30-11-302. Obligation to keep merchandise in full view. Any merchant has the right to request any individual on the merchant's premises to place or keep in full view any merchandise that the individual may have removed, or that the merchant has reason to believe the individual may have removed, from its place of display or elsewhere, whether for examination, purchase, or for any other purpose. A merchant may not be criminally or civilly liable for slander, false arrest, or otherwise on account of having made such a request.

History: En. Sec. 2, Ch. 11, L. 1957; R.C.M. 1947, 64-213; amd. Sec. 923, Ch. 56, L. 2009.