The annual salary of each district judge is one hundred eighty-four thousand three hundred sixty-six dollars. Each district judge is entitled to travel expenses, including mileage and subsistence while engaged in the discharge of official duties outside the city in which the judge's chambers are located. The salary and expenses are payable monthly in the manner provided by law. A presiding judge of a judicial district is entitled to receive an additional five thousand one hundred sixty-two dollars per annum.
27-05-03.1. Retirement for mental or physical disability of supreme court judges and district court judges. Whenever a judge of the supreme court or a judge of the district court of this state who is not a member of the public employees retirement system becomes unable, because of mental or physical disability, to perform the judicial duties of the office during the remainder of the term for which that judge has been elected or appointed and makes a written application to the chief justice or acting chief justice of the supreme court for retirement, setting forth the nature and extent of such disability, the supreme court judges and the district court judges shall make such investigation as they deem advisable. If two-thirds of the supreme court judges and the district court judges thereby determine that disability exists and that the performance of that judge's judicial duties is thereby substantially impaired and that the impairment will not likely be remedied, the chief justice or acting chief justice, by written order to be filed in the office of the secretary of state, shall thereupon direct the retirement of the judge. The order must specify the effective date of the retirement and thereby create a vacancy in the office which must be filled by appointment as provided by law. A copy of the order must be transmitted to the office of
management and budget. If the disability renders the judge unable to make or direct the making of the application, it may be made by a legally appointed guardian of the judge.
27-05-03.2. Judicial retirement salary payable to judge retired for mental or physical disability. If a judge of the supreme court or a judge of the district court retires under the provisions of section 27-05-03.1, the judge shall receive the compensation allotted to the judge's office for the remainder of the judge's term and thereafter judicial retirement salary as provided for in subsection 3 of section 27-17-01, regardless of the judge's age or years of service at that time. The provisions of this section are applicable to those judges who retire pursuant to section 27-05-03.1 after January 1, 1973.
27-05-04. Expenses of district judges sitting with supreme court or in other districts - Allowance - Payment. If a district judge is called to sit with the supreme court or is acting in any district court outside of the district judge's judicial district, that judge, when so called or so acting, is entitled to receive the actual and necessary expenses incurred by that judge as a result thereof.