Montana Regulations § 44.12.202 PRINCIPALS-REPORTS-MAINTENANCE OF RECORDS

(a) To determine whether a principal has made payments exceeding the threshold amount in 5-7-112 , MCA, during a calendar year, the principal must include all payments made to lobbyists and to individuals engaged in lobbying activities, excluding payments or reimbursements for personal and necessary living and travel expenses.

(b) If a principal does not make payments that exceed the threshold amount in 5-7-112 , MCA, to one or more lobbyists or individuals engaged in lobbying activities during a calendar year as provided in (1) (a), then the principal does not have to report any payments made.

(c) If a principal makes payments that exceed the threshold amount in 5-7-112 , MCA, to one or more lobbyists or individuals engaged in lobbying activities during a calendar year as provided in (1) (a), then all payments (excluding personal and necessary living expenses) made to a lobbyist or an individual engaged in lobbying activities, including those payments excluded in determining whether the amount in 5-7-112 , MCA, was exceeded by the principal, must be reported under 5-7-208 , MCA, and these rules. Although travel expenses paid to a lobbyist or an individual engaged in lobbying activities are excluded from the threshold payment determination under (1) (a), all payments or reimbursements for travel expenses to a lobbyist or an individual engaged in lobbying activities, including travel expense payments excluded from the determination of whether the amount in 5-7-112 , MCA, was exceeded by the principal, must be reported under 5-7-208 , MCA, and ARM 44.12.205 (5) once payments to a lobbyist or for lobbying activities exceed the threshold amount for a calendar year as provided in 5-7-112 , MCA.