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480.01 JUSTICES; TERMS; TRAVEL EXPENSES.
    Subdivision 1. Justices; terms. The Supreme Court shall consist of one chief justice and
six associate justices, who shall hold one term of court each year, at the seat of government,
commencing on the first Tuesday after the first Monday in January, with such continuations or
adjournments thereof during the year as may be necessary for the dispatch of the business coming
before the court. When the chief justice of the court shall be absent from the state, or shall be,
for any reason, incapacitated from acting as such, the associate justice present within the state
and not incapacitated who shall have served the longest time, or when there are two or more
associate justices of equal terms of service, then the associate justice, whom the chief justice shall
designate as senior associate justice as such, shall have and exercise all the powers, duties, and
functions of the chief justice during the absence or incapacity and shall be, during such absence or
incapacity, the presiding justice of the court.
    Subd. 2. Travel expenses. Travel expenses shall be paid by the state in the same manner and
amount as provided for judges of the district court in section 484.54.
History: (129) RL s 69; 1919 c 96 s 1; 1973 c 726 s 1; 1982 c 501 s 16; 1986 c 444; 1989 c
335 art 1 s 252

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