46-8-201. Remuneration of appointed counsel. (1) Whenever in a criminal proceeding an attorney represents or defends any person by order of the court on the ground that the person is financially unable to employ counsel, the attorney must be paid for the services a sum as a judge or justice of the state supreme court certifies to be a reasonable compensation and be reimbursed for reasonable costs incurred in the criminal proceeding.
     (2) The expense of implementing subsection (1) is chargeable as provided in 3-5-901 to the county in which the proceeding arose, the state, or both, except that:
     (a) in proceedings solely involving the violation of a city ordinance or state statute prosecuted in a municipal or city court, the expense is chargeable to the city or town in which the proceeding arose; or
     (b) when there has been an arrest by agents of the department of fish, wildlife, and parks or agents of the department of justice and the charge is prosecuted by personnel of the state agency that made the charge, the expense must be borne by the prosecuting state agency.

     History: En. 95-1005 by Sec. 1, Ch. 196, L. 1967; amd. Sec. 1, Ch. 186, L. 1973; amd. Sec. 1, Ch. 15, L. 1974; amd. Sec. 9, Ch. 184, L. 1977; R.C.M. 1947, 95-1005; amd. Sec. 2, Ch. 218, L. 1979; amd. Sec. 2, Ch. 295, L. 1985; amd. Sec. 10, Ch. 680, L. 1985; amd. Sec. 8, Ch. 1, Sp. L. 1985; amd. Sec. 7, Ch. 704, L. 1991; amd. Sec. 70, Ch. 800, L. 1991; amd. Sec. 9, Ch. 262, L. 1993.