Title 15, Chapter 2, Section 43
( 15-2-43)
The clerk of the Supreme Court shall have the following duties: (1) To keep an office at the seat of government where all books,
records, archives, and the seal of the court shall remain; (2) To attend all sessions of the court and obey all its lawful
orders; (3) To keep fair and regular minutes of the court's proceedings, a
record of its judicial acts, a docket of its cases, and such other
books as the court may require; (4) To certify, when required, upon payment of the lawful fees,
all minutes, records, or files of the court; (5) To arrange the cases on the docket and to give notice in one
of the newspapers printed at the place where the court is to be
held, 20 days prior to its session, of the order of arrangement; (6) To make out a remittitur of every case, together with a
certificate of the amount of the costs and by whom paid, which
remittitur shall consist of a copy of the judgment of the court as
entered on the minutes, and nothing more, and to transmit the
remittitur as provided by the rules of the Supreme Court; (7) To issue and sign all writs and processes of every description
issued under the authority of the court; (8) To administer oaths and affidavits in all cases, to take
acknowledgments, and to attest deeds, mortgages, and other written
instruments of like character; (9) To collect all costs due on cases in the Supreme Court and to
pay over to the Office of Treasury and Fiscal Services all money
arising from costs collected; (10) On or before the fifth day of each and every month, to submit
in writing to the Office of Treasury and Fiscal Services, with a
copy to the state auditor, a full and fair statement of each case
in which costs have been collected during the month preceding the
report, showing the amount collected and the amount not collected.
If any balance due by the clerk has not been collected, aside from
costs due in indigency cases, or has been collected but not paid
over, then the clerk shall be liable to be ruled by the Office of
Treasury and Fiscal Services in the Supreme Court, in term time,
on the same terms as other officers are ruled; and (11) To discharge whatever other duties may be required by law or
the court or which necessarily appertain to the office. |