§ 31-01-16 — Compensation and mileage and travel expense of witness

1. A witness in a civil or criminal case is entitled to receive:
a. A sum of twenty-five dollars for each day necessarily in attendance before the
district court or before any other board or tribunal, except municipal court.
b. A sum for mileage and travel expense reimbursement equal to the reimbursement
rates provided for state employees in sections 44-08-04 and 54-06-09.
2. In all criminal cases in district court, the attorney general shall pay prosecution witness
fees and expenses, in an amount not to exceed thirty thousand dollars per county
per biennium, and the commission on legal counsel for indigents shall pay witness
fees and expenses for witnesses in those cases in which counsel has been provided
by the commission. Prisoners may not be compensated as witnesses under this
section. If a county exceeds the thirty thousand dollar reimbursement during a
biennium, the county may enter an agreement with another county to allow the county
to receive another county's unused reimbursement funds for that biennium, with the
approval of the attorney general.