20-25-332. Competition between for-profit fitness centers and university fitness centers prohibited -- exception. - Montana Statutes

     20-25-332. Competition between for-profit fitness centers and university fitness centers prohibited -- exception. (1) Except as provided in subsection (2), a university fitness center may not sell a contract or charge a monthly fee to individual members of the general public for the use of fitness center facilities if a for-profit fitness center offering similar services operates in the community where the university fitness center operates.
     (2) The provisions of subsection (1) do not apply to:
     (a) contracts or monthly fees that may be charged to students, employees, or the immediate family members of a student or an employee of a university;
     (b) contracts or monthly fees that may be charged to alumni of the university as long as the number of alumni memberships does not exceed 10% of the total number of alumni who are dues-paying members of the university's alumni association and who reside in the municipality where the university is located and as long as the cost of the alumni membership is at least as much as the average cost of membership in for-profit fitness centers in the municipality; and
     (c) daily passes sold to relatives of university students or employees.
     (3) The provisions of this section do not apply to units of the university system with less than 3,500 full-time students.

     History: En. Sec. 2, Ch. 545, L. 2001.