Traffic Fine Lookup

How much is a speeding ticket in Montana?

amounts written into the statute · 4 tiers · every row cited · sources retrieved 2026-07-17

$70state-set

15 mph over the limit, first offense — the full arithmetic is on this page.

Montana writes speeding fines into state law itself — 1-10 mph over: $20 – $40 · 11-20 mph over: $70 · 21-30 mph over: $120. Where mandatory surcharges attach on top, this page itemizes them with their statutes. For 15 mph over the limit, the all-in figure is $70. What raises it: work zone with a highway worker present; exceeding 90 mph on an interstate limit; commercial driver's license holders. Speeding (or any other Part 3 traffic violation) inside a posted highway work zone — a criminal charge, outside a fine table's scope, noted here as a fact. Points: Montana has no conventional point-suspension track for speeding. A speeding conviction carries 3 points, but the points feed only the habitual-traffic-offender count — and minor speeding (up to 10 over daytime / 5 over nighttime) is not recorded at all, so it generates no points. Every row on this page carries its citation — 6 primary sources (statute text, court fine schedules, DMV publications), each with a retrieval date, plus the local-variation caveat that applies in Montana. This is a reference to what the law and the schedules print; it is not legal advice.

How Montana sets it Montana's statute prints the exact fine: MCA 61-8-725 sets a fixed dollar amount per mph-over tier, and the amounts converge for both road classes above 10 over ($70, $120, $200). The only split is the first tier — $40 for 1-10 over on interstate limits, $20 on other covered highways. The statute also expressly bars the court-technology surcharge for speed-limit violations and declares basic speeding not a criminal offense, so the fine is the number.

The fine, tier by tier

Speeding fines in Montana by speed over the limit. “Base fine” is what the statute or schedule names; “what you actually owe” includes the mandatory add-ons where state law fixes them.
Speed over the limit Base fine What you actually owe Citation
1-10 mph over the limit $20 – $40 state-set $20 – $40 state-set MCA 61-8-725(1)

$40 where the limit violated is an interstate limit under 61-8-303(1)(a); $20 on four-lane national highways, other public highways, special zones, and truck/cycle limits (61-8-303(1)(b)/(c), 61-8-309, 61-8-312). The statute prints the same amount for daytime and nighttime; day vs night matters only for whether the violation goes on the driving record (no record at up to 10 over daytime / 5 over nighttime).
11-20 mph over the limit $70 state-set $70 state-set MCA 61-8-725(1)

Identical $70 fine under both statutory schedules (interstate and non-interstate).
21-30 mph over the limit $120 state-set $120 state-set MCA 61-8-725(1)
31+ mph over the limit $200 state-set $200 state-set MCA 61-8-725(1)

Worked example: 15 mph over the limit, first offense

Line Amount Citation
Statutory fine — 11-20 mph over tier $70 MCA 61-8-725(1)
Total $70 state-set lines sum to $70

At 15 over, the fine is $70 on every road class the statute's schedules cover — the interstate and non-interstate schedules print the same number from 11 over upward. Montana adds no statewide assessment stack: MCA 61-8-725(3) states the 3-1-317 court surcharge 'may not be imposed for a violation of 61-8-303', and 61-8-725(2)(a) places speed-limit violations outside the statutes that attach criminal-case charges.

What raises it

License points

Montana has no conventional point-suspension track for speeding. A speeding conviction carries 3 points, but the points feed only the habitual-traffic-offender count — and minor speeding (up to 10 over daytime / 5 over nighttime) is not recorded at all, so it generates no points.

Violation Points
Speeding (recorded convictions; 61-11-203(2)(l)) 3

A driver who accumulates 30 or more conviction points within a 3-year period is a 'habitual traffic offender'; on that declaration the department revokes the license for 3 years. There is no lower graduated point-suspension ladder in the statute. (MCA 61-11-203(1)(b); MCA 61-11-211)

Where speed becomes a criminal charge

Criminal penalties are a courtroom matter and outside a fine table's scope — this page records the threshold as a fact and stops there.

Local variation — the honest caveat

The statutory schedules cover the default state speed limits. They do not cover everything: urban-district limits (25 mph under 61-8-303(1)(d)) are not listed in 61-8-725(1)'s schedules, and 61-8-725(5) states the section 'does not apply to the violation of a special speed zone established under 61-8-309 or 61-8-310' — the zones local authorities and the transportation commission create. For those citations no statewide fine figure is printed; the chapter's general penalty ($10-$100 on a first conviction, with discretionary court costs) or a local ordinance governs. (MCA 61-8-725(1),(5); MCA 61-8-303(1)(d); MCA 61-8-711(2),(5); MCA 61-8-310)

Sources

Every figure above was compiled from these sources, with a verbatim quote of the sentence carrying each number stored in the dataset so any row can be re-checked against its origin.

This is not legal advice This page republishes what Montana's statutes, court fine schedules, and driver-licensing publications print, for reference. Amounts change on legislative cycles, and the court named on a citation is the authority on what is owed in that court. Nothing here is advice about any citation or case.