Montana Code Annotated 2019

TITLE 30. TRADE AND COMMERCE

CHAPTER 19. RENTAL AND RENTAL-PURCHASE AGREEMENTS

Part 1. Montana Rental-Purchase Agreement Act

Renegotiation Of Rental-Purchase Agreement -- Extension Not Considered Renegotiation

30-19-114. Renegotiation of rental-purchase agreement -- extension not considered renegotiation. (1) A renegotiation of an agreement must occur when an existing agreement is satisfied and replaced by a new agreement between the lessor and the consumer. A renegotiation is considered a new agreement and requires new disclosures as provided for in 30-19-110. The following events may not be treated as a renegotiation:

(a) the addition or return of property in a multiple-item agreement or in the substitution of the rental property, if in either case the average payment allocable to a payment period is not changed by more than 25%;

(b) a deferral or extension of one or more periodic payments or portions of a periodic payment;

(c) a reduction in charges in the agreement; or

(d) an agreement involved in a court proceeding.

(2) An extension of an agreement is not a renegotiation.

History: En. Sec. 10, Ch. 263, L. 2001.