MT · jury_instructions
Mont. Crim. Jury Instr. 6-101 (2022)
Criminal Mischief
A person commits the offense of criminal mischief if the person knowingly or
purposely:
[(injures) (damages) (destroys) any (property of another) (public property) without consent.]
OR
[without consent tampers with (property of another) (public property) so as to endanger or interfere with (persons) (property) (its use).]
OR
[(damages) (destroys) property with the purpose to defraud an insurer.]
OR
[fails to close a gate previously unopened which the person has opened, leading in or out of any enclosed premises, not in a city or town.]
Provenance
- Source
- courts.mt.gov
- Retrieved
- 2026-08-20
- Edition
- 2009
- Content hash
710a7ff8b5c0ccfccc9ea19fecec415e59618b328d34f93cb452ae3831390a96
The link goes to the issuing authority’s own document — the one we read to produce this record. Where a source publishes whole titles rather than sections, your browser may need a moment to jump to the provision.
Unofficial copy of government-published law, reproduced from official sources with full provenance. Not an official publication; verify against official sources before relying on it in a filing. Records in the 'guidance' corpus, and only that corpus, are sub-regulatory (interpretive guidelines, survey procedures) and are not binding law. Validity bounds follow each jurisdiction's declared temporalBasis.