A Montana 30 Day Notice To Vacate is a letter that complies with state legal requirements to terminate a rental agreement, including a month-to-month or year-to-year lease. The non-terminating party must receive notice within thirty (30) calendar days of the date of termination.
When To Use a Montana 30 Day Notice To Vacate
A Montana 30 Day Notice To Vacate terminates the following types of tenancy:
- A rental agreement, including a month-to-month or year-to-year lease
- An expired lease
- A rental with no written lease where the tenant pays rent on a monthly basis
Some types of Montana lease termination notice may allow different reasons for termination, or different notice periods. This may also apply to an eviction notice issued because of a lease or legal violation.
How To Write a Montana 30 Day Notice To Vacate
To help ensure the legal compliance of a Notice To Vacate:
- Use the full name of the receiving parties, and address of record, if known
- Specify the termination date of the lease or tenancy
- Fill in the full address of the rental premises
- Provide updated/current address and phone number information
- Print name and sign the notice
- Complete the certificate of service by indicating the date and method of notice delivery, along with printed name and signature
It is easy to lose an otherwise justified legal action because of improper notice. Check carefully to ensure enough time after notice is delivered, not when it’s sent.
How To Serve a Montana 30 Day Notice To Vacate
Montana landlords and tenants may deliver a Notice To Vacate by any method which results in actual notification of the other party. State law gives a presumption of legal validity to the following methods:
- Hand delivery to the other party
- Delivery by certified mail, or by first class mail with a certificate of mailing
- Delivery of electronic notice (by email), if the relevant party has provided an email address in the rental agreement
Electronic notice is considered delivered when the other party replies (other than an automatic reply), or when the system generates a read receipt. Mailed notice extends a notice period by three (3) calendar days, to account for variable delivery times.
Sources
- 1 MT Code § 70-24-441
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The landlord or the tenant may terminate a month-to-month tenancy by giving to the other at any time during the tenancy at least 30 days’ notice in writing prior to the date designated in the notice for the termination of the tenancy.
Source Link - 2 Mont. Code § 70-24-108(1)
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A person has notice of a fact if any of the following is true:
(a) the person has actual knowledge of it; (b) in the case of a landlord, it is delivered at the place of business of the landlord through which the rental agreement was made; (c) in the case of a tenant or a landlord, it is transmitted to an electronic mail address provided by the tenant or the landlord in the rental agreement. Notice by electronic mail is complete on receipt of a read receipt generated by an electronic mail system or an electronic mail reply other than an automatically generated electronic mail reply. (d) in the case of a landlord or tenant, it is delivered in hand to the landlord or tenant or mailed with a certificate of mailing or by certified mail to the person at the place indicated by the person as the place for receipt of the communication or, in the absence of a designation, to the person’s last-known address. If notice is made with a certificate of mailing or by certified mail, service of the notice is considered to have been made on the date 3 days after the date of mailing.