North Dakota § 27-05-22 - District judges to act only within their districts - Exceptions

§ 27-05-22. District judges to act only within their districts - Exceptions

No judge of a district court of this state may hear or determine any action, special proceeding, motion, or application, or make any order, or give any judgment, in any action or proceeding pending or about to be commenced in a judicial district other than the one for which that judge was elected, except: 1. Upon the written request of a judge of such other district; 2. When, upon the application of either party to such action or proceeding and upon due notice to the opposite party, if that party has appeared and is entitled to such notice, it shall be made to appear by affidavit to the satisfaction of such judge that the judges of such other district are absent from their district, incapacitated, or disqualified to act therein. Such application may be made only to a judge of a district adjoining that in which such action or proceeding is pending or about to be commenced, and upon the hearing thereof counter affidavits may be used; 3. When designated by the supreme court to act in such other district in the place and stead of a district judge thereof who has been disqualified by the filing of an affidavit of prejudice; or 4. A motion upon notice may be heard by a judge of a district court in which the action or proceeding is not pending in the cases provided by law only, either in the district in which the action or proceeding is pending or in an adjoining district, but such motion when heard by the judge of the district in which the action or proceeding is pending can be heard only in such district.