{"data":{"id":"us-mt/16-10-203","jurisdiction":"us-mt","citation":"16-10-203","heading":"Sales to meet competition permitted.","body":"(1) (a) A retailer may advertise, offer to sell, or sell cigarettes at a price made in good faith to meet the price of a competitor who is selling the same article at cost to the competitor as a retailer as prescribed in this chapter.\n(b) Any wholesaler may advertise, offer to sell, or sell cigarettes at a price made in good faith to meet the price of a competitor who is rendering the same type of service and is selling the same article at cost to the competitor as a wholesaler as prescribed in this chapter.\n(c) The price of cigarettes advertised, offered for sale, or sold under the exceptions specified in 16-10-304 may not be considered the price of a competitor and may not be used as a basis for establishing prices below cost, and the price established at a bankruptcy sale may not be considered the price of a competitor within the purview of this section.\n(2) In the absence of proof of the \"price of a competitor\" under this section, the \"lowest cost to the retailer\" or the \"lowest cost to the wholesaler\", determined by any \"cost survey\" made pursuant to 16-10-303, may be considered to be the \"price of a competitor\" within the meaning of this section.","path":["TITLE 16. ALCOHOL, TOBACCO, AND MARIJUANA","CHAPTER 10. REGULATION OF CIGARETTE MARKETING","Part 2. Sales Price of Cigarettes"],"source_url":"https://mca.legmt.gov/bills/mca/title_0160/chapter_0100/part_0020/section_0030/0160-0100-0020-0030.html","current_through":"Montana Code Annotated 2025","vintage":"","retrieved_at":"2026-09-14T04:48:03Z","sha256":"ffcd4426cb4d2cb5bb6097ba629eba1d0df72a1bef45c696300bfda4acbade6a","source_id":"us-mt","stale":false,"prev":"us-mt/16-10-202","next":"us-mt/16-10-204"},"notice":"GroundRules: Original legal text. Not legal advice."}