Montana Code Annotated 2017

TITLE 3. JUDICIARY, COURTS

CHAPTER 1. COURTS AND JUDICIAL OFFICERS GENERALLY

Part 7. Court Administrator

Duties

3-1-702. Duties. The court administrator is the administrative officer of the court. Under the direction of the supreme court, the court administrator shall:

(1) prepare and present judicial budget requests to the legislature, including the costs of the state-funded district court program;

(2) collect, compile, and report statistical and other data relating to the business transacted by the courts and provide the information to the legislature on request;

(3) to the extent possible, provide that current and future information technology applications are coordinated and compatible with the standards and goals of the executive branch as expressed in the state strategic information technology plan provided for in 2-17-521;

(4) recommend to the supreme court improvements in the judiciary;

(5) administer legal assistance for indigent victims of domestic violence, as provided in 3-2-714;

(6) administer state funding for district courts, as provided in chapter 5, part 9;

(7) administer and report on the child abuse and neglect court diversion pilot project provided in 41-3-305;

(8) administer the pretrial program provided for in 3-1-708;

(9) administer the judicial branch personnel plan; and

(10) perform other duties that the supreme court may assign. (Subsection (7) terminates June 30, 2019 -- secs. 5, 7, Ch. 141, L. 2017.)

History: En. 82-512 by Sec. 3, Ch. 396, L. 1977; R.C.M. 1947, 82-512; amd. Sec. 13, Ch. 112, L. 1991; amd. Sec. 1, Ch. 704, L. 1991; amd. Sec. 12, Ch. 349, L. 1993; amd. Sec. 9, Ch. 585, L. 2001; amd. Sec. 2, Ch. 445, L. 2005; amd. Sec. 2, Ch. 376, L. 2015; amd. Sec. 1, Ch. 141, L. 2017; amd. Sec. 1, Ch. 163, L. 2017; amd. Sec. 7, Ch. 390, L. 2017.