VII.7. Terms and Pay
TERMS AND PAY. (1) All justices and judges shall be paid as provided by law, but salaries shall not be diminished during terms of office. (2) Terms of office shall be eight years for supreme court justices, six years for district court judges, four years for justices of the peace, and as provided by law for other judges.
History
Sources
1889 Constitution
Article VIII. Judicial Departments.
Sec. 7. The term of office of the Justices of the Supreme court, except as in this constitution otherwise provided, shall be six years.
Sec. 12. The State shall be divided into judicial districts, in each of which there shall be elected by the electors thereof one Judge of the District Court, whose term of office shall be four years, except that the District Judges first elected shall hold their offices only until the general election in the year one thousand eight hundred and ninety two (1892), and until their successors are elected and qualified.
Sec. 20. There shall be elected in each organized township of each county by the electors of such township at least two justices of the peace, who shall hold their offices except as otherwise provided in this constitution, for the term of two years.
Sec. 29. The justices of the supreme court and the judges of the district courts shall each be paid quarterly by the State, a salary, which shall not be increased or diminished during the terms for which they have been respectively elected. Until otherwise provided by law, the salary of the justices of the supreme court shall be four thousand dollars per annum each, and the salary of the judges of the district courts shall be three thousand five hundred dollars per annum each.