North Dakota Code 11-16-09 – State’s attorney’s contingent fund
The board of county commissioners shall set aside from any funds in the county treasury not specifically appropriated or set aside for any other purpose the following sum of money to be used by the state‘s attorney of the county as a contingent fund for the purpose of defraying the necessary expenses that are not otherwise provided for in securing evidence, investigating criminal cases, and furthering justice:
Terms Used In North Dakota Code 11-16-09
- Evidence: Information presented in testimony or in documents that is used to persuade the fact finder (judge or jury) to decide the case for one side or the other.
- following: when used by way of reference to a chapter or other part of a statute means the next preceding or next following chapter or other part. See North Dakota Code 1-01-49
- population: means the number of inhabitants as determined by the last preceding state or federal census. See North Dakota Code 1-01-47
- State: when applied to the different parts of the United States, includes the District of Columbia and the territories. See North Dakota Code 1-01-49
1. Not less than five hundred dollars and not more than one thousand dollars in counties having a population of ten thousand inhabitants or less.
2. Not less than one thousand dollars and not more than one thousand five hundred dollars in counties having a population of more than ten thousand and not more than twenty thousand inhabitants.
3. Not less than one thousand five hundred dollars and not more than two thousand dollars in counties having a population of more than twenty thousand inhabitants.