{"data":{"id":"us-mt/45-5-214","jurisdiction":"us-mt","citation":"45-5-214","heading":"Assault with bodily fluid.","body":"(1) A person commits the offense of assault with a bodily fluid if the person purposely causes one of the person's bodily fluids to make physical contact with:\n(a) a law enforcement officer, a staff person of a correctional or detention facility, or a health care provider, as defined in 50-4-504, including a health care provider performing emergency services, while the health care provider is acting in the course and scope of the health care provider's profession and occupation:\n(i) during or after an arrest for a criminal offense;\n(ii) while the person is incarcerated in or being transported to or from a state prison, a county, city, or regional jail or detention facility, or a health care facility; or\n(iii) if the person is a minor, while the youth is detained in or being transported to or from a county, city, or regional jail or detention facility or a youth detention facility, secure detention facility, regional detention facility, short-term detention center, correctional facility as defined in 41-5-103, health care facility, or shelter care facility; or\n(b) an emergency responder.\n(2) A person convicted of the offense of assault with a bodily fluid shall be fined an amount not to exceed $1,000 or incarcerated in a county jail or a state prison for a term not to exceed 1 year, or both.\n(3) The youth court has jurisdiction of any violation of this section by a minor.\n(4) As used in this section, the following definitions apply:\n(a) \"Bodily fluid\" means any bodily secretion, including but not limited to feces, urine, blood, and saliva.\n(b) \"Emergency responder\" means a licensed medical services provider, law enforcement officer, firefighter, volunteer firefighter or officer of a nonprofit volunteer fire company, emergency care provider, emergency nurse, ambulance operator, provider of civil defense services, or any other person who in good faith renders emergency care or assistance at a crime scene or the scene of an emergency or accident.","path":["TITLE 45. CRIMES","CHAPTER 5. OFFENSES AGAINST THE PERSON","Part 2. Assault and Related Offenses"],"source_url":"https://mca.legmt.gov/bills/mca/title_0450/chapter_0050/part_0020/section_0140/0450-0050-0020-0140.html","current_through":"Montana Code Annotated 2025","vintage":"","retrieved_at":"2026-09-14T04:55:30Z","sha256":"c28b9cd48a582c6f00a4e97d2c24424fa539e1f02e0d6202a7d8527a1ad59022","source_id":"us-mt","stale":false,"prev":"us-mt/45-5-213","next":"us-mt/45-5-215"},"notice":"GroundRules: Original legal text. Not legal advice."}