Title 31, COUNTIES AND COUNTY LAW

31-2601. Qualifications. No person shall be eligible to qualify for the office of prosecuting attorney who is not an attorney and counselor at law duly licensed to practice as such in the district courts of the state at the time he assumes office as prosecuting attorney. No prose…

31-2602. Deputy prosecuting attorneys — Appointment, salary, and qualifications. Each prosecuting attorney may be empowered by the board of county commissioners of his county to appoint deputy prosecuting attorneys upon a finding by such board of county commissioners that such ap…

31-2603. Special prosecutor — Appointment. (a) When the prosecuting attorney for the county is absent from the court, or when he has acted as counsel or attorney for a party accused in relation to the matter of which the accused stands charged, and for which he is to be tried on …

31-2604. Duties of prosecuting attorney. It is the duty of the prosecuting attorney: 1. To prosecute or defend all actions, applications or motions, civil or criminal, in the district court of his county in which the people, or the state, or the county, are interested, or are a p…

31-2605. Receipts for money collected. When any prosecuting attorney receives any money for fines, forfeitures, penalties or costs, he must deliver to the person paying the same duplicate receipts therefor, one (1) of which must be filed by such person in the office of the county…

31-2606. Prohibitions. No prosecuting attorney must receive any fee or reward for or on behalf of any prosecutor or other individual, for services in any prosecution, or business to which it is his official duty to attend or discharge; nor be concerned as attorney or counsel for …

31-2607. Adviser of county commissioners. The prosecuting attorney is the legal adviser of the board of commissioners; he must attend their meetings when required, and must attend and oppose all claims and accounts against the county when he deems them unjust or illegal.

31-2608. County stenographers — Compensation. The board of county commissioners of any county in this state may if they deem it advisable for the best interests of the county, employ competent stenographers at a compensation, to be fixed by said board, to take and transcribe test…

31-2609. County stenographers — Duties. Said stenographers shall be under the control and direction of the prosecuting attorney of the said county, and it shall be the duty of such stenographers to be present at all preliminary examinations when so requested by the prosecuting at…

31-2610. County stenographers — Traveling expenses. When it becomes necessary for said stenographers to go from place to place in the performance of county business, the expenses of travel, including hotel and board, shall be a charge against the county, and shall be allowed in a…

31-2611. Prosecuting attorney’s contingent fund — Appropriation by commissioners. The county commissioners of each county in this state are hereby authorized and directed to set apart at their first meeting in October of each year, from any funds then in the county treasury, not …

31-2612. Contingent fund — Approval of district court. The prosecuting attorney of each county, by and with the consent and approval first had and obtained of the district court, or any judge thereof, in and for his county, is hereby authorized and empowered to incur the expenses…

31-2613. Contingent fund — Manner of disbursement. All disbursements from said fund shall be made in the usual manner by the county treasurer of each county upon the warrant of the auditor of each county, which auditor’s warrant shall be executed and delivered in an amount, and t…

31-2614. Contingent fund — Unexpended balance. Any sum remaining in said fund on the thirtieth day of September of each year shall then be transferred by the county auditor to the general county revenue fund of said county.