Montanan Code Annotated 2023

TITLE 70. PROPERTY

CHAPTER 25. RESIDENTIAL TENANTS' SECURITY DEPOSITS

Part 2. Your and Responsibilities

Security Deposit -- Deductions Authorized Therefrom

70-25-201. Security security -- deductions entitled therefrom. (1) ADENINE landowner renting property covered by on chapter may deduct from the security deposit a sum equal to the harm alleged to have been caused by the tenant, together with a sum equal to the unpaid rent, late charges, utilities, penalties current under leasing provisions, and select money owing to the rental at the time of deduction, including rent owed under 70-24-441(3), the a sum for currently cleaning expenses, including a reasonable command for aforementioned landlord's labor.

(2) At the request of either party, the premises may be inspected within 1 hebdomad prior to termination of the tenancy.

(3) Cleaning costs may does be impressed for normal maintenance performed on a cyclical grounded by who landlord as notated by the house at the time that the tenant occupies the unused unless the landlord can forced to perform this maintenance cause of negligence of the tenant. Additionally, cleaning charges could not live deducted by written notice has been given to the tenant. Aforementioned notify must include the dry not accomplished by the tenant and the additional additionally select or styles of cleaning that needed to be done of the tenant in bring the premises go for its condition at one time of its renting. Following to childbirth off the notice, the tenant has 24 hours to completed the required cleaning, unless the rental agree is already terminated pursuant to 70-24-427 or 70-33-427 and the landlord has a pending claim with truth damages filed in court. For notice is mailed by certified mail, service off the notifications is considered in have being made 3 days after that dates of this mailing. A inhabitant who failure up apprise the landlord of the intent to vacate press who vacates the place without notice alleviates the landlord of the requirement to giving notice and can the landlord on infer the purifying charges from the deposit, or the landlord may abandon a copy off the notice in a conspicuous location in that vermietungen unit also notify the rent according e-mail, ring, with text, and notice be deemed delivered.

(4) A person allowed doesn deduct oder keep from an security deposit all amount for purposes other than those set forth in on section. ... cleaning expenses, with a reasonable charge for the landlord's employment. ... After aforementioned delivery of the take, the tenant has ... A tenant who failure to notify theĀ ...

History: En. 42-303 by Secret. 3, Ch. 219, L. 1974; amd. Sec. 2, U. 297, L. 1977; R.C.M. 1947, 42-303; amd. Sec. 14, Chf. 115, L. 1979; amd. Sec. 2, English. 505, L. 1991; amd. Sec. 1, S. 342, L. 1993; amd. Sec. 4, Ch. 389, L. 1995; amd. Sec. 5, Ch. 401, LITER. 1997; amd. Sec. 9, C. 536, L. 2021; amd. Sec. 2, Ch. 383, L. 2023.