2006 Minnesota Statutes

480.15 POWERS AND DUTIES.
    Subdivision 1. Powers and duties. The court administrator shall, under the supervision and
direction of the chief justice, have the powers and duties prescribed by this section.
    Subd. 2. Examination of methods and systems. The court administrator shall examine the
administrative methods and systems employed in the offices of the judges, court administrators,
reporters, and employees of the courts and make recommendations, through the chief justice
for the improvement of the same.
    Subd. 3. Examination of dockets. The court administrator shall examine the state of dockets
of the courts and determine the need for assistance by any court.
    Subd. 4. Judge assignment recommendations. The court administrator shall make
recommendations to the chief justice relating to the assignment of judges where courts are in need
of assistance and carry out the direction of the chief justice as to the assignments of judges to
counties and districts where the courts are in need of assistance.
    Subd. 5. Collection of statistical data. The court administrator shall collect and compile
statistical and other data and make reports of the business transacted by the courts and transmit
the same to the chief justice and to the respective houses of the legislature to the end that proper
action may be taken in respect thereto.
    Subd. 6. Appropriation; budget estimates. The court administrator shall prepare and
submit budget estimates of state appropriations necessary for the maintenance and operation of
the judicial system and make recommendations in respect thereto.
    Subd. 7. Expenditure of public money. The court administrator shall collect statistical and
other data and make reports relating to the expenditure of public money, state and local, for the
maintenance and operation of the judicial system and the offices connected therewith.
    Subd. 8. Delay of action reports. The court administrator shall obtain reports from court
administrators in accordance with law or rules adopted by the Supreme Court of this state on cases
and other judicial business in which action has been delayed beyond periods of time specified
by law or rules of court and make report thereof to the Supreme Court of this state and to the
respective houses of the legislature.
    Subd. 9. Judicial system improvement recommendations. The court administrator shall
formulate and submit to the respective houses of the legislature recommendations of policies
for the improvement of the judicial system.
    Subd. 10. Annual report. The court administrator shall submit annually, as of February 1, to
the chief justice and the judicial council, a report of the activities of the Court Administrator's
Office for the preceding calendar year.
    Subd. 10a. Uniform personnel standards. The court administrator shall prepare uniform
standards and procedures for the recruitment, evaluation, promotion, in-service training and
discipline of all personnel in the court system other than judges, referees, judicial officers, court
reporters and court services officers. The court administrator shall file a report on the uniform
standards and procedures with the legislature by June 30, 1978.
    Subd. 10b. Uniform requirements; budget and information systems. The court
administrator shall promulgate and administer uniform requirements for court budget and
information systems, the compilation of statistical information, and the collection, storage and
use of court records.
    Subd. 11. Duties delegated by Supreme Court. The court administrator shall attend to such
other matters consistent with the powers delegated herein as may be assigned by the Supreme
Court of this state.
    Subd. 12. Review of plans. The court administrator shall review plans submitted by a
judicial district for office equipment under section 484.68, subdivision 3, clause (e), and shall
determine eligibility for state funding or reimbursement for the equipment.
History: 1963 c 758 s 3; 1971 c 81 s 2; 1977 c 432 s 6; 1Sp1986 c 3 art 1 s 82; 1987
c 404 s 178; 1993 c 13 art 1 s 45