2019 Montana Code Annotated
Title 61. Motor Vehicles
Chapter 3. Certificates of Title, Registration, and Taxation of Motor Vehicles
Part 2. Certificates of Title
61-3-204. Replacement certificate of title -- application

61-3-204. Replacement certificate of title -- application. (1) (a) If a certificate of title is lost, stolen, destroyed, mutilated, or becomes illegible or if the owner wants to update personal information on the electronic record of title or have a replacement certificate of title issued with updated information, the owner, as shown on the electronic record of title, may apply for and request the department to issue a replacement certificate of title. The application must include satisfactory evidence of the facts requiring the replacement certificate of title and be accompanied by a fee of $10.

(b) The amount of $5 of the fee must be deposited in the state general fund in accordance with 15-1-504, and the remaining $5 must be deposited in the motor vehicle information technology system account provided for in 61-3-550.

(c) Beginning July 1, 2026, the fee for a replacement certificate of title is $5 and the entire fee must be deposited in the state general fund.

(2) Each replacement certificate of title issued by the department must contain the following statement: "This replacement voids any previously issued title."

History: En. Subd. 6, Sec. 2, Ch. 159, L. 1933; re-en. Sec. 1758.5, R.C.M. 1935; amd. Sec. 1, Ch. 96, L. 1953; amd. Sec. 28, Ch. 121, L. 1965; R.C.M. 1947, 53-113(part); amd. Sec. 1, Ch. 654, L. 1979; amd. Sec. 1, Ch. 277, L. 1983; amd. Sec. 2, Ch. 378, L. 1987; amd. Sec. 9, Ch. 398, L. 1989; amd. Secs. 52, 83(1)(d), Ch. 477, L. 2003; amd. Sec. 8, Ch. 562, L. 2003; amd. Sec. 49, Ch. 542, L. 2005; amd. Sec. 5, Ch. 50, L. 2007; amd. Sec. 3, Ch. 398, L. 2015.