====== N.D. Const. art. III, § 8 — Research ======

**Enactment.** Text of the section: [[.:start|current and prior versions]].

Every citing reference in the corpus: **4** court opinions and **6** Attorney General opinions.

//Generated from the citation graph of the validated corpus. Treatment groupings (construing / citing / recital) are heuristic reading aids, not editorial judgments — read the opinion before relying on any signal.//

===== Cases by topic =====

//Topics are machine-generated groupings of the citing references — reading aids, not editorial judgments. Documents cited after the last classification pass appear in the lists below until the next pass.//

== Seven-year limit on amending initiated or referred measures ==

  * N.D. Att'y Gen.: [[https://attorneygeneral.nd.gov/wp-content/uploads/2023/02/2017-L-06.pdf|N.D. Op. Att'y Gen. 2017-L-06 (2017)]]
  * N.D. Att'y Gen.: [[https://attorneygeneral.nd.gov/wp-content/uploads/2023/03/87-05.pdf|N.D. Op. Att'y Gen. 87-05 (1987)]]
  * N.D. Att'y Gen.: [[https://attorneygeneral.nd.gov/wp-content/uploads/2023/03/87-03.pdf|N.D. Op. Att'y Gen. 87-03 (1987)]]
  * Sunbehm Gas, Inc. v. Conrad, [[https://www.courtlistener.com/opinion/1605465/sunbehm-gas-inc-v-conrad/|1981 ND 143]] (1981, Erickstad, J.)

== Effect and effective date of approval or rejection ==

  * N.D. State Board of Higher Education v. Jaeger et al., [[https://www.ndcourts.gov/supreme-court/opinions/131725|2012 ND 64]] (2012, VandeWalle, J.)  ·  quotes the provision
    * //¶ 35: “…%%ue, but only with certainty until the vote on the referred measure. "An initiated or referred measure which is approved shall become law thirty days after the election, and a referred measure which is rejected shall be void immediately." N.D. Const. art. III, § 8. Therefore, any determination this Court makes on the constitutionality of N.D.C.C. § 15-10-46, will be an advisory opinion on the people's vote.%%…”//
  * Workers Compensation Bureau v. William McCollum, [[https://www.courtlistener.com/opinion/895902/mccollum-v-north-dakota-workers-compensation-bureau/|1997 ND 163]] (1997, Sandstrom, J.)
  * N.D. Att'y Gen.: [[https://attorneygeneral.nd.gov/wp-content/uploads/2023/02/96wess02.pdf|N.D. Op. Att'y Gen. 96-L-100 (1996)]]
  * N.D. Att'y Gen.: [[https://attorneygeneral.nd.gov/wp-content/uploads/2023/03/093085-Eiken_0.pdf|N.D. Op. Att'y Gen. (Sept. 30, 1985) (to Eiken)]]

== Conflicting measures ==

  * N.D. Att'y Gen.: [[https://attorneygeneral.nd.gov/wp-content/uploads/2023/02/2004-L-60.pdf|N.D. Op. Att'y Gen. 2004-L-60 (2004)]]

== Other applications ==

  * Bjerke, et al. v. North Dakota Legislative Assembly, et al., [[https://www.ndcourts.gov/supreme-court/opinions/214697|2026 ND 118]] (2026, McEvers, J.)

----
//The sidebar keeps a curated digest; this page is the complete record.//