82-2-403. Penalty for commingling foreign substances with ore. - Montana Statutes

     82-2-403. Penalty for commingling foreign substances with ore. Any person or persons, corporation, association, or partnership which shall, with intent to defraud, in any manner whatever, introduce any foreign substance into any ore or commingle any foreign substance with any ore intended for sale in any smelter or which any person, association, or corporation shall have undertaken for hire to smelt or into any sample retained for tests or assays, as provided in 82-2-402, shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor and upon conviction thereof shall be punished by a fine of not less than $100 or more than $1,000 or by imprisonment in the county jail for a period of not less than 60 days or more than 12 months or by both such fine and imprisonment.

     History: En. Sec. 3, Ch. 54, L. 1909; amd. Sec. 1, Ch. 44, L. 1921; re-en. Sec. 3438, R.C.M. 1921; re-en. Sec. 3438, R.C.M. 1935; R.C.M. 1947, 50-203.