Montana Tenant Health and Safety Breach Thirty-Day Termination Notice
Montana Tenant Health and Safety Breach Thirty-Day Termination Notice
Before you use this: MCA § 70-24-406(1)(a) requires a written notice describing a breach affecting health and safety. For the ordinary route, state a termination date at least 30 days after the landlord receives the notice and give 14 days to remedy. If the landlord adequately remedies a remediable breach before the termination date, this notice does not terminate the agreement. An emergency or repeated breach has a different notice route.
Date: [__/__/____]
To landlord or authorized agent: [NAME AND ADDRESS]
From tenant: [NAME, PHONE OR EMAIL]
Rental premises: [STREET ADDRESS, UNIT, CITY, MONTANA, ZIP]
Health and safety breach
You have not fulfilled your duty under MCA § 70-24-303 concerning [DESCRIBE DUTY]. The acts or omissions constituting the breach are [SPECIFIC CONDITION, LOCATION, DATES, AND REQUESTED CORRECTION]. The breach affects health and safety because [FACTS]. It was not caused by me, a family member, or another person on the premises with my consent.
I request that you remedy the condition by [SPECIFIC WORK]. I can provide access at [DATES AND TIMES] or arrange it through [CONTACT].
Cure and termination dates
You will receive this notice on [__/__/____], as shown by [DELIVERY METHOD AND PROOF]. Fourteen days after receipt is [__/__/____]. The termination date I designate is [__/__/____], at least 30 days after receipt.
If you do not remedy the breach within 14 days after receipt, the rental agreement will terminate on the date designated above, subject to MCA § 70-24-406(1)(a). If the breach is remediable and you adequately remedy it before the designated termination date, the agreement will not terminate because of this notice. Please tell me promptly what you have done and arrange any needed inspection.
If termination occurs, I will surrender possession and keys on [__/__/____] by [METHOD]. My forwarding address for security recoverable under Montana law is [ADDRESS]. Please send the applicable accounting and balance there.
Tenant signature: [________________________________] Date: [__/__/____]
Enclosures and delivery record
☐ Photographs, inspection reports, or prior repair requests
☐ Lease or other record identifying the landlord's duty
I delivered this notice and its enclosures to [NAME] on [__/__/____] by [METHOD] at [ADDRESS OR DELIVERY DETAILS].
Person making delivery: [________________________________]
Sources and References
About this template
- Last updated
- November 5, 2026
- Citations checked
- November 5, 2026
- Jurisdiction
- Montana
- Category
- Landlord & Tenant
Legal authority
- MCA § 70-24-303(1)(b)
- MCA § 70-24-406(1)(a), (4)
Landlord-tenant paperwork governs who can stay in a property, on what terms, and what happens when something goes wrong. Leases, notices to quit, security deposit demands, and habitability complaints all have state and often city-specific requirements for timing, content, and service. Getting the paperwork right is what makes an eviction actually succeed or a security deposit actually come back, because judges regularly dismiss cases over small procedural mistakes.
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Checked against the law it cites
A reviewer verified this template's legal citations against the official source on November 5, 2026.
MCA § 70-24-303(1)(b) (checked November 5, 2026): "shall make repairs and do whatever is necessary to put and keep the premises in a fit and habitable condition"
MCA § 70-24-406(1)(a) (checked November 5, 2026): "the rental agreement will terminate upon a date not less than 30 days after receipt of the notice if the breach is not remedied in 14 days"
MCA § 70-24-406(1)(a)(i) (checked November 5, 2026): "if the breach is remediable by repairs, the payment of damages, or otherwise and the landlord adequately remedies the breach before the date specified in the notice"
MCA § 70-24-406(4) (checked November 5, 2026): "If the rental agreement is terminated, the landlord shall return all security recoverable by the tenant"
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