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The Secretary of State of Montana is one of the elected constitutional officers of executive branch of the U.S. state of Montana.
The current Secretary of State is Linda McCulloch.
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Organization
The Secretary of State's Office is composed of five divisions:
- The Administrative Rules Services Division is the administrative law arm of the Secretary's office, filing rule notices, rule adoptions, and interpretations, and publishing the state register twice a month. The state's code of regulations, the Administrative Rules of Montana, is updated quarterly.
- The Business Services Division registers business entities, trademarks, assumed business names, and liens made under the Uniform Commercial Code and Federal Food Security Act.
- The Certification and Notaries Division licenses and trains notaries public and certifies documents.
- The Elections and Government Services division administers elections and voter registration. Campaign finance and lobbying is regulated by a separate agency, the Commissioner of Political Practices.
- The Records Management Bureau maintains the records of state and local governments.
Other duties
The Secretary is the keeper of the Montana state seal, and also serves on the Montana Board of Land Commissioners, which administers school trust lands.[1]
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State secretaries of state in the United States AL: Beth Chapman (R)
AK: No such office
AR: Mark Martin (R)
AZ: Ken Bennett (R)
CA: Debra Bowen (D)
CO: Scott Gessler (R)
CT: Denise Merrill (D)
DE: Harriet Smith Windsor (D)
FL: Kurt S. Browning (R)
GA: Brian Kemp (R)HI: No such office
ID: Ben Ysursa (R)
IL: Jesse White (D)
IN: Charlie White (R)
IA: Matt Schultz (R)
KS: Kris Kobach (R)
KY: Elaine Walker (D)
LA: Tom Schedler (R)
MD: John P. McDonough (D)
MA: Bill Galvin (D)ME: Charlie Summers (R)
MI: Ruth Johnson (R)
MN: Mark Ritchie (D)
MS: Delbert Hosemann (R)
MO: Robin Carnahan (D)
MT: Linda McCulloch (D)
NE: John Gale (R)
NV: Ross Miller (D)
NH: Bill Gardner (I)
NJ: Kim Guadagno (R)NM: Dianna Duran (R)
NY: Cesar A. Perales (D)
NC: Elaine Marshall (D)
ND: Al Jaeger (R)
OH: Jon Husted (R)
OK: Glenn Coffee (R)
OR: Kate Brown (D)
PA: Carol Aichele (R)
RI: Ralph Mollis (D)
SC: Mark Hammond (R)SD: Jason Gant (R)
TN: Tre Hargett (R)
TX: Esperanza Andrade (R)
UT: No such office
VT: Jim Condos (D)
VA: Janet Polarek (R)
WA: Sam Reed (R)
WV: Natalie Tennant (D)
WI: Doug La Follette (D)
WY: Max Maxfield (R)
AS: Lt. Gov. Ipulasi A. Sunia (D)
DC: Cynthia Brock-Smith (D)
GU: Lt. Gov. Ray Tenorio (R)
PR: Kenneth McClintock (D-NPP)
VI: No such officeIn Massachusetts, Pennsylvania, and Virginia, the office is called the Secretary of the Commonwealth.
In states without the office, the lieutenant governor may perform some of the typical duties of a Secretary of State.Categories:- Montana stubs
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