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| 2 | 2 | | Sixty-ninth |
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| 3 | 3 | | Legislative Assembly |
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| 4 | 4 | | of North Dakota |
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| 5 | 5 | | Introduced by |
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| 6 | 6 | | Representatives Klemin, Karls, Lefor, Schneider, Louser |
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| 7 | 7 | | Senators Dwyer, Larson, Myrdal, Sickler |
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| 8 | 8 | | A BILL for an Act to amend and reenact section 31-01-16 of the North Dakota Century Code, |
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| 9 | 9 | | relating to compensation and mileage and travel expenses for witnesses. |
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| 10 | 10 | | BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATIVE ASSEMBLY OF NORTH DAKOTA: |
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| 11 | 11 | | SECTION 1. AMENDMENT. Section 31-01-16 of the North Dakota Century Code is |
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| 12 | 12 | | amended and reenacted as follows: |
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| 13 | 13 | | 31-01-16. Compensation and mileage and travel expense of witness. |
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| 14 | 14 | | 1.A witness in a civil or criminal case is entitled to receive: |
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| 15 | 15 | | 1.a.A sum of twenty-five dollars for each day necessarily in attendance before the |
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| 16 | 16 | | district court or before any other board or tribunal, except municipal court. |
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| 17 | 17 | | 2.b.A sum for mileage and travel expense reimbursement equal to the |
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| 18 | 18 | | reimbursement rates provided for state employees in sections 44-08-04 and |
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| 19 | 19 | | 54-06-09. |
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| 20 | 20 | | 2.In all criminal cases in district court, the attorney general shall pay prosecution witness |
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| 21 | 21 | | fees and expenses, in an amount not to exceed twenty-five thousand dollarsthirty |
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| 22 | 22 | | thousand dollars per county per biennium, and the commission on legal counsel for |
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| 23 | 23 | | indigents shall pay witness fees and expenses for witnesses in those cases in which |
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| 24 | 24 | | counsel has been provided by the commission. Prisoners may not be compensated as |
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| 25 | 25 | | witnesses under this section. If a county exceeds the thirty thousand dollar |
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| 26 | 26 | | reimbursement during a biennium, the county may enter an agreement with another |
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| 27 | 27 | | county for the purpose of allowing that county to receive another county's unused |
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| 28 | 28 | | reimbursement funds for that biennium, with the approval of the attorney general. |
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| 30 | 30 | | HOUSE BILL NO. 1399 |
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