Montana Code 23-6-101. Definitions
23-6-101. Definitions. Unless the context requires otherwise, the following definitions apply in this part:
Terms Used In Montana Code 23-6-101
- Corporation: A legal entity owned by the holders of shares of stock that have been issued, and that can own, receive, and transfer property, and carry on business in its own name.
- Person: includes a corporation or other entity as well as a natural person. See Montana Code 1-1-201
- Personal property: All property that is not real property.
- Personal property: means money, goods, chattels, things in action, and evidences of debt. See Montana Code 1-1-205
(1)”Arcade” means a commercial establishment whose primary purpose is to make amusement games available for public play.
(2)”Concessionaire” means a person who owns one or more amusement games and who enters into an agreement with an operator, as defined in subsection (5)(a), to conduct games. A concessionaire may also be an operator.
(3)”Crane game” means an amusement game activated by the insertion of a coin or token by which the player uses one or more buttons, control sticks, or similar means of control or a combination of those means of control to position a mechanical or electromechanical claw or other retrieval device over a prize and attempts to retrieve it.
(4)”Nonprofit organization” means a nonprofit corporation or a nonprofit charitable, religious, scholastic, educational, veterans’, fraternal, beneficial, civic, or service organization, established for a purpose other than conducting amusement games.
(5)”Operator” means a person who:
(a)enters into an agreement with a county fair commission, board of directors of a fair district, joint fair and civic center commission, business, or an association of businesses, such as a shopping center or downtown area, to provide amusement games; or
(b)makes an amusement game available for public play on premises owned by the operator or on premises owned by another person.
(6)”Prize” means:
(a)tangible personal property; or
(b)nontransferable tokens or tickets that may be accumulated and redeemed for tangible personal property.