====== N.D. Const. art. IV, § 5 — Research ======

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

Every citing reference in the corpus: **4** court opinions and **2** Attorney General opinions. Counts include the section's pre-1981 designation (§ 29), era-gated by the renumbering crosswalk.

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===== Construing and quoting decisions (1) =====

  * Onstad v. Jaeger, et al., [[https://www.ndcourts.gov/supreme-court/opinions/149451|2020 ND 203]] (2020, per curiam)  ·  quotes the provision
    * //¶ 17: “…%%Eligibility to hold elective office in the state legislature is governed by N.D. Const. art. IV, § 5, which states: Each individual elected or appointed to the legislative assembly must be, on the day of the election or appointment, a qualified elector in the district from which the member was selected and must have be%%…”//

===== Other citing decisions (3) =====

  * Berg v. Jaeger, et al., [[https://www.ndcourts.gov/supreme-court/opinions/121268|2020 ND 178]] (2020, per curiam)
  * 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.)

===== Attorney General opinions (2) =====

Advisory, not binding; included for the doctrine's full administrative history.

  * [[https://attorneygeneral.nd.gov/wp-content/uploads/2023/03/040892-Berg_0.pdf|N.D. Op. Att'y Gen. (Apr. 8, 1992) (to Berg)]]
  * [[https://attorneygeneral.nd.gov/wp-content/uploads/2023/04/61-135.pdf|N.D. Op. Att'y Gen. 61-135 (1961)]]  ·  citing § 29 (1889 numbering)

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