Title 82, Title 82

(1) A petroleum dealer or liquefied petroleum dealer may not do business in this state until licensed by the department. The license must be obtained by the dealer by making application to the department upon forms provided by the department. A dealer who has not been issued a li…

The department may refuse to grant a license or may suspend or revoke a license already granted for due cause after a hearing for which notice was provided for not less than 10 days. Violation of any provision of this part, except 82-15-110(8), or any lawful order or rule of the …

(1) For the purpose of obtaining information regarding suspected violation of this part, the department has access to all places where the commodities subject to regulation under this part are sold, offered for sale or kept for sale, manufactured, transported, or stored or where …

Part of a compartment delivery may be made only by an approved, calibrated, and sealed meter or an approved measure. Gauge stick measurement is not permitted. All tank markers must be positioned and sealed as provided by the department. The department shall fix by rule fees for r…

Full compartment sales or deliveries may only be made in a manner that shall be provided by the department by rule. All other sales or deliveries may only be made through a meter which has been approved, calibrated, and sealed by the department or by weight, unless otherwise prov…

It is unlawful to: (1) use any meter or mechanical device for the measurement of gasoline or liquid fuels unless the meter or mechanical device has been approved by the department and sealed as correct; (2) change or in any way tamper with the department's seal without written co…

A person who purposely, knowingly, or negligently violates any of the provisions of this part, except 82-15-110(8), or any rule promulgated by the department is guilty of a misdemeanor and upon conviction shall for the first offense be punished by a fine of not less than $10 or m…

The department may apply to any court of competent jurisdiction for a temporary or permanent injunction, or both, restraining any person for violating any provision of this part or any rule promulgated by the department pursuant to this part.

Only the owner or a person authorized by the owner may: (1) fill or refill a liquefied petroleum product container; (2) deface, erase, obliterate, cover up, remove, conceal, or change the name or other identification of the owner or the information on the manufacturer's specifica…

A person who violates 82-15-113 is guilty of a misdemeanor and upon conviction shall be punished by a fine not to exceed $500 or by imprisonment in the county jail for a term not exceeding 120 days, or both.

The owner of a liquefied petroleum product container shall place the name, initials, or trademark of the owner on the dome near the filling apparatus of each container.

(1) (a) Whenever the department of environmental quality believes that a violation of 82-15-110(8) or of the rules adopted pursuant to 82-15-102(3) has occurred, it may serve written notice of the violation on the alleged violator or an agent of the alleged violator. (b) The noti…

The term "standard petroleum product" as used herein refers to and includes gasoline, fuel oil, distillates, greases, and lubricating oils.

This part is intended to compel a person, firm, company, association, or corporation doing business in the state of Montana and engaged in the selling of and dealing in standard petroleum products to treat a customer in one part of the state of Montana on an equal basis with a cu…

(1) Any person, firm, company, association, or corporation, either domestic or foreign, doing business in the state of Montana and engaged in the selling of any standard petroleum product that shall demand or collect from any person or customer a higher price for any standard pet…

If a complaint is made to the attorney general that a person, firm, company, association, or corporation is guilty of discrimination as defined by this part, the attorney general shall investigate the complaint in a timely manner, and for that purpose the attorney general shall s…

If a person presents to the county attorney of any county in which the discriminatory acts of a person, firm, company, association, or corporation have been committed a sworn written statement of the price paid, the date, and the parties selling and buying and reasonably reliable…

Any person, firm, company, association, or corporation violating any of the provisions of this part shall be guilty of a misdemeanor and shall be punishable by a fine of not exceeding $500.

In addition to the penalty above prescribed, any customer of such person, firm, company, association, or corporation may bring a civil action in any county in which such offending person, firm, company, association, or corporation may be doing business and recover therein not onl…