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MONTANA ADVANCE LEGISLATIVE SERVICE,
1995, ACT 319
Section 1. English as official and primary language
of state and local governments.
(1) English is the official and primary language of:
(a) state and local governments;
(b) government officers and employees acting in the course
and scope of their employment; and
(c) government documents and records.
(2) A state statute, local government ordinance, or state
or local government policy may not require a specific foreign language
to be used by government officers and employees acting in the course and
scope of their employment or for government documents and records or require
a specific foreign language to be taught in a school as a student's primary
language.
(3) This section is not intended to violate the federal
or state constitutional right to freedom of speech of government officers
and employees acting in the course and scope of their employment. This
section does not prohibit a government officer or employee acting in the
course and scope of employment from using a language other than English,
including use in a government document or record, if the employee choose,
or prohibit the teaching of other languages in a school for general educational
purposes or as secondary languages.
Source: Charles V. Dale and Mark Gurevitz,
Legal Analysis of Proposals to Make English the Official Language of
the United States, Oct. 17, 1995, Washington, D.C.: Congressional
Research Service.
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