North Dakota Statutes
§ 31-01-18 — Expenses of witness paid by city or state upon court order in criminal or municipal court action
municipal court action. When a person, as a witness in a criminal or municipal court action, appears before a magistrate, grand jury, or court, upon a subpoena or in pursuance of an undertaking and it appears that the person:
1.Has come from a place outside the county; or
2.Is poor and unable to pay the expenses of such attendance,
the court, if the attendance of the witness is upon a trial, by order upon its minutes, or in any
other case, the judge, by a written order, may direct the state in district court cases or the city in
municipal court cases to pay the witness a reasonable sum to be specified in the order for the
necessary expenses of the witness's attendance. Upon the production of the order or a certified
copy thereof, the state or city, to whichever entity the order is direct
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