Threats and Harassment by Phone or Message
MCA 45-8-213 — threatening or obscene messages, or repeated ones to disturb, up to 6 months and $500
- Communicating electronically to terrify, intimidate, threaten, harass or injure, with a threat to injure the person or property, or repeated obscene or lewd language.
- Using electronic communication to try to extort money, or to disturb a person's peace or privacy by repeated communications.
Who handles this in Montana: State Bar of Montana, Licensed Lawyer Montana; and legal aid programs and the state offices, listed in the Montana directory.
Either is violating privacy in communications, with a fine of up to $500, up to 6 months, or both, and up to 1 year and $1,000 on a second conviction.
A threat to make someone act. Threatening physical harm, confinement or a felony, in a way that reasonably makes the threat feared, to make someone do or not do something, is intimidation, a felony with up to 10 years and $50,000.
Sources for this section (2)
- MCA 45-8-213 — Privacy in communications
- MCA 45-5-203 — Intimidation
Legal information, not legal advice. Verified as of October 2026. Applying it to a particular situation is the work of a licensed Montana attorney.