3-104. PRACTICING WITHOUT LICENSE A CONTEMPT — EXCEPTION. If any person shall practice law or hold himself out as qualified to practice law in this state without having been admitted to practice therein by the Supreme Court and without having paid all license fees now or hereafter prescribed by law for the practice of law he is guilty of contempt both in the Supreme Court and district court for the district in which he shall so practice or hold himself out as qualified to practice. Provided, that any person may appear and act in a magistrate’s division of a district court as representative of any party to a proceeding therein so long as the claim does not total more than $300, and so long as he or his employer has no pecuniary interest in the outcome of the litigation, and that he shall do so without making a charge or collecting a fee therefor.
History:
[(3-104) C.C.P. 1881, sec. 119; R.S., R.C., & C.L., sec. 3996; C.S., sec. 6571; am. 1929, ch. 63, sec. 3, p. 92; I.C.A., sec. 3-104; am. 1969, ch. 278, sec. 1, p. 821.]