Montana Rape and Sexual Assault Laws

Code Section

What's Prohibited?

Consent

• Incarcerated or on probation, and the offender is an employee, contractor, or volunteer of the supervising authority
• Less than 14 years old and the offender is three of more years older than the victim, or
• Receiving services from a youth care facility and the offender is an employee, contractor, volunteer, or has supervisory authority over the victim at the facility

Penalties

First conviction: Punishable by a fine of up to $500, and/or imprisonment for up to six months.

Second conviction: Punishable by a fine of up to $1,000, and/or imprisonment for up to one year.

Third (or subsequent) conviction: Punishable by a fine of up to $10,000, and/or imprisonment for up to five years.

If the victim is less than 16 years old and the offender is three or more years older than the victim, or if the offender inflicts bodily injury upon anyone in the course of committing the sexual assault, then the offense is punishable by imprisonment for four to 100 years and the offender may be fined up to $50,000.

Code Section

What's Prohibited?

Penalties

Generally, a person convicted of sexual intercourse without consent is punished by life imprisonment, or by imprisonment for between four and 100 years and a fine of up to $50,000.

There are increased penalties under any of the following circumstances:

• If the victim is less than 16 years old and the offender is four or more years older than the victim
• If the offender inflicts injury upon anyone in the course of the act
• If two or more people are convicted with the same victim in an incident where each offender was present at the location where the other offender's offense occurred during a time period in which each offender could have reasonably known of the other's offense, or
• If the offender was previously convicted of sexual intercourse without consent and if the offender inflicted serious bodily injury upon a person in the course of committing each offense