Within appropriations and budgetary limitations, the district court may employ and select clerical assistants for magistrates. History: 1953 Comp., § 36-9-10, enacted by Laws 1968, ch. 62, § 105; 1972, ch. 45, § 5; 1979, ch. 160, § 4; 2021, ch. 95, § 7. ANNOTATIONSThe 2021 amendment, effective June 18, 2021, transferred duties of the administrative office of the courts to individual judicial districts; and after 'limitations', deleted 'each magistrate, or the presiding magistrate of a multi-magistrate court, may select and the administrative office of the courts' and added 'the district court', and after 'may employ', added 'and select'.
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