# Montana — What a newspaper may legally charge to publish a legal notice — by US state

For Montana, maximum chargeable rate is shall not exceed the minimum going rate charged any other advertiser for the same publication set in the same sized type and published for the same number of insertions; how the cap is measured is tied to the newspaper's commercial rate; statute is Mont. Code Ann. § 18-7-201(2), recorded from its source on 2026-08-19.

- **State:** Montana _(our reading, not quoted from the source)_
- **Maximum chargeable rate:** shall not exceed the minimum going rate charged any other advertiser for the same publication set in the same sized type and published for the same number of insertions _(verified: appears in the quote below)_
- **How the cap is measured:** tied to the newspaper's commercial rate _(our reading, not quoted from the source)_
- **Statute:** Mont. Code Ann. § 18-7-201(2) _(our reading, not quoted from the source)_

## What the source says

> (2) The price for such publication and by whomsoever accomplished shall not exceed the minimum going rate charged any other advertiser for the same publication set in the same sized type and published for the same number of insertions.

## Source

- https://mca.legmt.gov/bills/mca/title_0180/chapter_0070/part_0020/section_0010/0180-0070-0020-0010.html

Last verified: 2026-08-19. Review by: 2027-08-19.
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