2004 Minnesota Statutes

  487.04 MS 1957 Local, Hennepin County, 1961, chapter 
  527 

     487.04 Disqualifications of lay judge. 

    A county court judge who is not learned in the law shall 
 not act in hearings, try or dispose of any case or proceeding 
 involving jurisdiction in addition to that exercised by the 
 judge at the time of the effective date of Laws 1971, chapter 
 951.  Those matters shall be heard by a judge or judicial 
 officer learned in the law from within the county court district 
 or from any other county, who upon request of the county court 
 agrees to serve or who is assigned to hear the cases or 
 proceedings by the chief justice of the supreme court, or, with 
 the consent of the parties and the district court, such 
 proceedings may be transferred by the county court to the 
 district court.  Provided that, a lay judge may be assigned to 
 hear marriage dissolution actions in which the custody of 
 children is not at issue.  

    HIST: 1971 c 951 s 4; 1982 c 608 s 1; 1986 c 444