Telephone Solicitation No-Call List
MT No-Call Law
Marketing
Montana keeps a state no-call list that includes the Montana portion of the national Do Not Call registry. Telephone solicitors may not call listed residential subscribers, must identify themselves at the start of the call, and may not block caller ID.
- Where
- Montana
- Citation
- Mont. Code Ann. 30-14-1601 to 30-14-1606
- Status
- In force
- In force since
- 2003-10-01
- Last amended
- 2015-10-01
- Enforced by
- Montana Department of Justice or county attorneys
- People can sue
- Yes
- Penalties
- Civil penalty up to $5,000 per knowing violation plus injunction; residential subscribers receiving more than one violating call from the same caller in 12 months may sue for the greater of actual loss or $5,000 per knowing violation; due-care defense; 2-year limitations period (30-14-1605).
- Applies to
- Persons making telephone solicitations to Montana residential subscribers, excluding calls with prior permission, calls within 180 days of a business contact or with an existing relationship, certain 501(c) fundraising, federally licensed entities keeping their own no-call lists, referral or home-based callers, and Montana-licensed professionals setting appointments (30-14-1601(4))
What a privacy notice must say
- State clearly at the beginning of the call the identity of the person or entity making the solicitation.Mont. Code Ann. 30-14-1604(1)
Practices it requires
- Do not make telephone solicitations to residential subscribers on the state no-call list (which incorporates Montana numbers on the national registry).Mont. Code Ann. 30-14-1602, 30-14-1603(3)
- Do not knowingly block or circumvent the subscriber's caller identification service.Mont. Code Ann. 30-14-1604(2)
Other duties
- No-call database information may be used only for compliance and enforcement and is confidential.Mont. Code Ann. 30-14-1603(4)
Sources
Checked against these sources on 2026-09-25 by research agent (Claude), primary sources.
Unverified: Effective dates inferred from history notes (En. Ch. 589, L. 2003; amd. Ch. 348, L. 2015) and the default October 1 rule.
Research reference, not legal advice.