Unlawful Automated Telephone Solicitation
MT Robocall Law
Marketing · Communications
Montana bans automated dialing with prerecorded messages for selling, soliciting, gathering data or political campaigning. Informational calls about purchased goods, responses to inquiries, and calls where there is a preexisting business relationship are allowed.
- Where
- Montana
- Citation
- Mont. Code Ann. 45-8-216
- Status
- In force
- In force since
- 1991-10-01
- Enforced by
- County attorneys and the Attorney General (criminal prosecution)
- People can sue
- No
- Penalties
- Fine up to $2,500 (45-8-216(3)).
- Applies to
- Any person using an automated system, device or fax machine to dial numbers and play recorded messages for sales, solicitation, data gathering or political campaign purposes (45-8-216(1))
Practices it requires
- Do not use automated dialing with recorded messages to offer goods or services, solicit information, gather data or statistics, or promote political campaigns.Mont. Code Ann. 45-8-216(1)
Other duties
- Exceptions cover order-status notices, responses to inquiries, and other pertinent information where there is a preexisting business relationship.Mont. Code Ann. 45-8-216(2)
Sources
Checked against these sources on 2026-09-25 by research agent (Claude), primary sources.
Unverified: Effective date inferred from history note (En. Ch. 230, L. 1991) and the default October 1 rule. The political-call ban may be constitutionally vulnerable; no case law checked.
Research reference, not legal advice.