Section 16. District court; additional judges; redistricting
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District court; additional judges; redistricting
The legislature may increase the number of district judges in any judicial district, and they shall be elected or appointed as other district judges for that district. At any session after the publication of the census of the United States in the year nineteen hundred and twenty, the legislature may rearrange the districts of the state, increase the number thereof, and make provision for a district judge for any additional district.
District court; additional judges; redistricting
The legislature may increase the number of district judges in any judicial district, and they shall be elected as other district judges, but such increase shall be made only when the population of the district where such increase is proposed exceeds fifty thousand people, and the number may then be increased on the basis of one district judge for every fifty thousand people or fraction thereof actually enumerated in said district or officially reported by the United States Census.
District court; additional judges; redistricting
The legislature may increase the number of district judges in any judicial district, and they shall be elected as other district judges. At its first session after the publication of the census of the United States in the year nineteen hundred and twenty, and at the first session after each United States census thereafter, the legislature may rearrange the districts of the State, increase the number thereof, and make provision for a district judge for any additional district.