Terms Used In Montana Code > Title 39 > Chapter 8 - Professional Employer Organizations and Groups Licensing

• Affidavit: A written statement of facts confirmed by the oath of the party making it, before a notary or officer having authority to administer oaths.
• Affidavit: means a sworn written declaration made before an officer authorized to administer oaths or an unsworn written declaration made under penalty of perjury as provided in 1-6-105. See Montana Code 1-1-203
• Appeal: A request made after a trial, asking another court (usually the court of appeals) to decide whether the trial was conducted properly. To make such a request is "to appeal" or "to take an appeal." One who appeals is called the appellant.
• Applicant: means a person that seeks to be licensed under this chapter. See Montana Code 39-8-102
• Client: means a person that obtains all or part of the person's workforce from another person through a professional employer arrangement. See Montana Code 39-8-102
• Complaint: A written statement by the plaintiff stating the wrongs allegedly committed by the defendant.
• Contract: A legal written agreement that becomes binding when signed.
• Controlling person: means an individual who possesses the right to direct the management or policies of a professional employer organization or group through ownership of voting securities, by contract or otherwise. See Montana Code 39-8-102
• Conviction: A judgement of guilt against a criminal defendant.
• 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.
• Damages: Money paid by defendants to successful plaintiffs in civil cases to compensate the plaintiffs for their injuries.
• Department: means the department of labor and industry. See Montana Code 39-8-102
• Employee leasing arrangement: means an arrangement by contract or otherwise under which a professional employer organization hires its own employees and assigns the employees to work for another person to staff and manage, or to assist in staffing and managing, a facility, function, project, or enterprise on an ongoing basis. See Montana Code 39-8-102
• Evidence: Information presented in testimony or in documents that is used to persuade the fact finder (judge or jury) to decide the case for one side or the other.
• Fiduciary: A trustee, executor, or administrator.
• Financial statements: means accounting information, consisting of balance sheets and income statements, that identifies the financial position of applicants or licensees through their operations. See Montana Code 39-8-102
• Fraud: Intentional deception resulting in injury to another.
• group: means at least two but not more than five professional employer organizations, each of which is majority-owned by the same person. See Montana Code 39-8-102
• Injunction: An order of the court prohibiting (or compelling) the performance of a specific act to prevent irreparable damage or injury.
• Jurisdiction: (1) The legal authority of a court to hear and decide a case. Concurrent jurisdiction exists when two courts have simultaneous responsibility for the same case. (2) The geographic area over which the court has authority to decide cases.
• Liabilities: The aggregate of all debts and other legal obligations of a particular person or legal entity.
• Licensee: means a person licensed as a professional employer organization or group under this chapter. See Montana Code 39-8-102
• Partnership: A voluntary contract between two or more persons to pool some or all of their assets into a business, with the agreement that there will be a proportional sharing of profits and losses.
• Person: means an individual, association, company, firm, partnership, corporation, or limited liability company. See Montana Code 39-8-102
• Presiding officer: A majority-party Senator who presides over the Senate and is charged with maintaining order and decorum, recognizing Members to speak, and interpreting the Senate's rules, practices and precedents.
• Process: means a writ or summons issued in the course of judicial proceedings. See Montana Code 1-1-202
• Professional employer arrangement: means an arrangement by contract or otherwise under which:

  (i)a professional employer organization or group assigns employees to perform services for a client;

  (ii)the arrangement is or is intended to be ongoing rather than temporary in nature; and

  (iii)the employer responsibilities are shared by the professional employer organization or group and the client. See Montana Code 39-8-102

• Professional employer organization: means :

  (i)a person that provides services of employees pursuant to one or more professional employer arrangements or to one or more employee leasing arrangements; or

  (ii)a person that represents to the public that the person provides services pursuant to a professional employer arrangement. See Montana Code 39-8-102

• Several: means two or more. See Montana Code 1-1-201
• State: when applied to the different parts of the United States, includes the District of Columbia and the territories. See Montana Code 1-1-201
• Temporary service contractor: means a person conducting a business that hires the person's own employees and assigns them to clients to fulfill a work assignment with a finite ending date to support or supplement the client's workforce in situations resulting from employee absences, skill shortages, seasonal workloads, and special assignments and projects. See Montana Code 39-8-102
• United States: includes the District of Columbia and the territories. See Montana Code 1-1-201
• Writing: includes printing. See Montana Code 1-1-203