Montana Code Annotated 2023

TITLE 3. JUDICIARY, COURTS

CHAPTER 5. DISTRICT COURTS

Part 2. District Court Judges

Expenses When Out Of District

3-5-213. Expenses when out of district. A district court judge who sits in the place of another judge in the trial or hearing of an action or proceeding in a district other than the judge's own or in the supreme court or who attends a conference of judges in Helena called by the chief justice of the supreme court must be paid the judge's actual and necessary travel expenses, as provided in 2-18-501 through 2-18-503, while engaged in that service as follows:

(1) travel expenses from the county seat of the county in which the judge resides to the place of trial, hearing, or conference and return; and

(2) board and lodging while engaged in the trial, hearing, or conference.

History: En. Sec. 1, Ch. 3, L. 1907; re-en. Sec. 293, Rev. C. 1907; re-en. Sec. 8816, R.C.M. 1921; re-en. Sec. 8816, R.C.M. 1935; amd. Sec. 1, Ch. 15, L. 1953; amd. Sec. 61, Ch. 439, L. 1975; amd. Sec. 23, Ch. 344, L. 1977; R.C.M. 1947, 93-305; amd. Sec. 16, Ch. 21, L. 1979; amd. Sec. 3, Ch. 528, L. 1979; amd. Sec. 169, Ch. 61, L. 2007.