Montana Code 27-1-804. What communications are privileged
27-1-804. What communications are privileged. A privileged publication is one made:
Terms Used In Montana Code 27-1-804
- Person: includes a corporation or other entity as well as a natural person. See Montana Code 1-1-201
(1)in the proper discharge of an official duty;
(2)in any legislative or judicial proceeding or in any other official proceeding authorized by law;
(3)in a communication without malice to a person interested therein by one who is also interested or by one who stands in such relation to the person interested as to afford a reasonable ground for supposing the motive for the communication innocent or who is requested by the person interested to give the information;
(4)by a fair and true report without malice of a judicial, legislative, or other public official proceeding or of anything said in the course thereof.
