2001 Minnesota Statutes

     525.051 Temporary assignment of judges.  

    Whenever by reason of disqualification, absence, illness, 
 incapacity or other cause, the probate judge of any county is 
 unable to act, or whenever the interest of the public or of any 
 person interested in any matter requires that such probate judge 
 should not act, any other probate judge, or probate judge who 
 has retired as a probate judge, and who consents so to act, may 
 be assigned to serve and discharge the duties of such probate 
 judge in the judge's stead at such times or for such purposes as 
 may be directed by order of such probate judge or in the event 
 of death or refusal, failure, or inability so to order as 
 determined by the chief judge of the district court of the 
 judicial district in which the county is situated, by order of 
 such chief judge.  Any probate judge or retired probate judge 
 temporarily assigned to serve and discharge the duties of the 
 probate judge in such other county shall be reimbursed for all 
 reasonable and necessary mileage and expenses and may, when so 
 ordered by such chief judge, be paid such additional 
 compensation as such chief judge shall fix, but in no event 
 shall any compensation so paid exceed the rate of compensation 
 prescribed by law as the salary of the probate judge in the 
 county in which said probate judge or retired probate judge is 
 temporarily assigned.  It shall be the duty of the county to 
 which a probate judge or retired probate judge is temporarily 
 assigned to make payment to such probate judge or retired 
 probate judge of all amounts due under the provisions hereof for 
 mileage, expenses or compensation.  

    Any substitute judge while acting in such capacity shall 
 have all the power, authority, and jurisdiction of the resident 
 judge, including juvenile, municipal or other jurisdiction 
 conferred by law, irrespective of the nature of the jurisdiction 
 of the substitute judge in the county from which called to serve.

    HIST: (8992-8) 1935 c 72 s 8; Ex1959 c 60 s 1; 1961 c 267 s 1; 
 1986 c 444