North Dakota Century Code Title 31. Judicial Proof § 31-01-16. Compensation and mileage and travel expense of witness

1. A witness in a civil or criminal case is entitled to receive:

2. In all criminal cases in district court, the attorney general shall pay prosecution witness fees and expenses, in an amount not to exceed thirty thousand dollars per county per biennium, and the commission on legal counsel for indigents shall pay witness fees and expenses for witnesses in those cases in which counsel has been provided by the commission. Prisoners may not be compensated as witnesses under this section. If a county exceeds the thirty thousand dollar reimbursement during a biennium, the county may enter an agreement with another county to allow the county to receive another county's unused reimbursement funds for that biennium, with the approval of the attorney general.