Montana Code Annotated 2023

TITLE 3. JUDICIARY, COURTS

CHAPTER 2. SUPREME COURT

Part 3. Sessions of the Supreme Court

Who Shall Preside

3-2-301. Who shall preside. The chief justice presides at all sessions of the supreme court, and in case of the chief justice's absence, the associate justice having the shortest term to serve presides.

History: En. Sec. 15, C. Civ. Proc. 1895; re-en. Sec. 6247, Rev. C. 1907; re-en. Sec. 8799, R.C.M. 1921; re-en. Sec. 8799, R.C.M. 1935; R.C.M. 1947, 93-210(part); amd. Sec. 162, Ch. 61, L. 2007.