46-9-203. Report to county attorney concerning drug users. - Montana Statutes

     46-9-203. Report to county attorney concerning drug users. A city judge, judge of a municipal court, or justice of the peace shall report immediately to the county attorney of the county in which the judge's or justice's court is located any knowledge or information acquired by the judge or justice in a trial of a cause or hearing before the judge or justice that shows or tends to show that any person is a drug user or drug addict. If the person is under arrest or liberated on bail at the time the knowledge or information is acquired, the person may not be liberated, if under arrest, or the bail discharged by the judge or justice of the peace until the report is made to the county attorney.

     History: En. Sec. 10, Ch. 202, L. 1921; re-en. Sec. 3198, R.C.M. 1921; re-en. Sec. 3198, R.C.M. 1935; R.C.M. 1947, 66-1520; amd. Sec. 6, Ch. 116, L. 1979; amd. Sec. 1739, Ch. 56, L. 2009.