2004 Minnesota Statutes

     488A.021 Judges. 

    Subdivision 1.    Number of judges.  There are 17 
 judges of the municipal court of the county of Hennepin. 

    Subd. 2.    Qualifications and oath.  Each judge shall 
 be a person learned in the law who is admitted and qualified to 
 practice in the Supreme Court of this state and is a resident of 
 the county of Hennepin in this state.  Before entering upon the 
 duties of office, each judge shall take and subscribe an oath, 
 in the form prescribed by law for judicial officers, and shall 
 file that oath in the office of the county auditor. 

    Subd. 3. Repealed, 1993 c 318 art 2 s 51 

    Subd. 4.    Powers.  The judges have the general powers 
 of judges of courts of record and all powers necessary to 
 effectuate the purposes of sections 488A.01 to 488A.17.  Each 
 judge may administer oaths and take and certify 
 acknowledgments.  Each judge is a conservator of the peace and 
 has all powers and authority vested in it by statute or court 
 rule. 

    Subd. 5.    Contempt of court.  Any judge has the power 
 to punish for contempt of court by a fine not exceeding $100 or 
 by imprisonment in the county jail or city workhouse not 
 exceeding 90 days. 

    Subd. 6.    Court rules.  A majority of the judges may 
 promulgate rules of court consistent with sections 488A.01 to 
 488A.17.  Unless the rule forbids, a judge may waive its 
 application. 

    Subd. 7.  Repealed, 1977 c 432 s 49 

    Subd. 8.    Salaries.  Each judge shall be paid by the 
 state an annual salary in the amount prescribed by section 
 15A.083.  If a judge dies while in office, the amount of the 
 judge's salary remaining unpaid for the month in which the death 
 occurs shall be paid to the judge's estate.  Each judge shall be 
 paid expenses by the state in the same manner and amount as 
 provided for judges of the district court in section 484.54. 

    Subd. 9.    Retired judges, assignments.  Upon the 
 retirement of any judge of the municipal court of Hennepin 
 County, the judge may, with the judge's consent, be appointed 
 and assigned, by the then chief judge upon authorization of a 
 majority of the municipal court judges, to hear any cause 
 properly assignable to a judge of the municipal court of 
 Hennepin County and act thereon with full powers of such a 
 judge.  When such retired judge undertakes such service, the 
 retired judge shall be provided at the expense of the county a 
 courtroom or hearing room for the purpose of holding court or 
 hearings, to be paid for by the county, and shall be paid in 
 addition to a retirement compensation and not affecting the 
 amount thereof, the sum of $50 per diem for such additional 
 service, together with travel pay in the sum of 12 cents per 
 mile and the retired judge's actual expenses incurred in such 
 service, said payment to be made in the same manner as the 
 payment of salaries for district judges, on certification by the 
 presiding or senior judge of the district or by the chief judge 
 of the Supreme Court of the state of Minnesota. 

    HIST: 1965 c 847 s 1; 1967 c 735 s 1; Ex1967 c 50 s 2; 1969 c 
 970 s 1; 1971 c 25 s 85-87; 1971 c 879 s 1; 1973 c 347 s 1; 1975 
 c 290 s 1; 1977 c 35 s 16; 1977 c 432 s 31; 1983 c 359 s 69; 
 1986 c 444