====== N.D. Const. art. IV, § 11 — Research ======

**Vacancy to be Filled as Provided by Law.** Text of the section: [[.:start|current and prior versions]].

Every citing reference in the corpus: **7** court opinions and **4** Attorney General opinions. Counts include the section's pre-1981 designation (§ 35), era-gated by the renumbering crosswalk.

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== Legislative reapportionment under former section 35 ==

  * 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.)
  * N.D. Att'y Gen.: [[https://attorneygeneral.nd.gov/wp-content/uploads/2023/03/78-9.pdf|N.D. Op. Att'y Gen. 78-9 (1978)]]
  * State ex rel. Stockman v. Anderson, [[https://www.courtlistener.com/opinion/1762603/state-ex-rel-stockman-v-anderson/|1971 ND 13]] (1971, Strutz, J.)
  * State ex rel. Paulson v. Meier, [[https://www.courtlistener.com/opinion/1968468/state-ex-rel-paulson-v-meier/|1964 ND 19]] (1964, Morris, J.)
  * State ex rel. Lein v. Sathre, [[https://www.courtlistener.com/opinion/2118809/state-ex-rel-lein-v-sathre/|1962 ND 7]] (1962, Morris, J.)
  * State ex rel. Aamoth v. Sathre, [[https://www.courtlistener.com/opinion/2079626/state-ex-rel-aamoth-v-sathre/|1961 ND 23]] (1961, Strutz, J.)
  * N.D. Att'y Gen.: [[https://attorneygeneral.nd.gov/wp-content/uploads/2023/04/61-135.pdf|N.D. Op. Att'y Gen. 61-135 (1961)]]

== Filling legislative vacancies ==

  * Burgum v. Jaeger, et al., [[https://www.ndcourts.gov/supreme-court/opinions/127058|2020 ND 251]] (2020, Crothers, J.)  ·  construes, quotes the provision
    * //¶ 19: “…%%9] We construe statutes dealing with the same subject matter together to harmonize them and give full force to their meaning. Sabo v. Job Serv. N.D., 2019 ND 98, ¶ 11, 925 N.W.2d 437. Under the power vested in the Legislative Assembly by N.D. Const. art. IV, § 11, it has passed N.D.C.C. § 16.1-13-10. That section applies to "a vacancy in the office of a member of the legislative assembly ...." Construing N.D.C.C. § 44-02-03, which excepts legislative offices from the Governor's%%…”//
  * N.D. Att'y Gen.: [[https://attorneygeneral.nd.gov/wp-content/uploads/2023/02/2020-L-08.pdf|N.D. Op. Att'y Gen. 2020-L-08 (2020)]]
  * N.D. Att'y Gen.: [[https://attorneygeneral.nd.gov/wp-content/uploads/2023/02/01-l-15.pdf|N.D. Op. Att'y Gen. 2001-L-15 (2001)]]

== Other applications ==

  * State ex rel. Sanstead v. Freed, [[https://www.courtlistener.com/opinion/2229506/state-ex-rel-sanstead-v-freed/|1977 ND 15]] (1977, Paulson, J.)

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