1. MCA Contents
  2. TITLE 3
  3. CHAPTER 2
  4. Part 1
  5. 3-2-101 Number, election, and term of office

Montana Code Annotated 2023

TITLE 3. JUDICIARY, COURTS

CHAPTER 2. SUPREME COURT

Part 1. Supreme Court Justices

Number, Election, And Term Of Office

3-2-101. Number, election, and term of office. The supreme court consists of a chief justice and six associate justices who are elected by the qualified electors of the state at large at the general state elections next preceding the expiration of the terms of office of their predecessors, respectively, and hold their offices for the term of 8 years from and after the first Monday of January next succeeding their election.

History: En. Sec. 12, C. Civ. Proc. 1895; re-en. Sec. 6244, Rev. C. 1907; amd. Sec. 1, Ch. 31, Ex. L. 1919; re-en. Sec. 8790, R.C.M. 1921; Cal. C. Civ. Proc. Sec. 40; re-en. Sec. 8790, R.C.M. 1935; amd. Sec. 1, Ch. 13, L. 1973; R.C.M. 1947, 93-201; amd. Sec. 1, Ch. 683, L. 1979.