25-35-601. Commencement of action -- assistance to claimant. (1) A small claims action is commenced whenever any person appears before a justice of the peace or his clerk and executes a sworn small claims complaint in substantially the same form as set forth in 25-35-602.
     (2) The justice shall assist any claimant in preparing his complaint or instruct his clerk to provide such assistance. The attorney general shall prepare a pamphlet explaining in plain language the procedures for prosecuting and defending a claim in small claims court and distribute copies of the pamphlet to each small claims court. The justice or his clerk shall give the plaintiff a copy when the plaintiff appears to execute his complaint, and a copy must be attached to the order of the court/notice to defendant.

     History: En. Sec. 6, Ch. 586, L. 1981; amd. Sec. 3, Ch. 492, L. 1983.