N.D. Const. art. III, § 2 — Research

Petitions. Text of the section: current and prior versions.

Every citing reference in the corpus: 4 court opinions and 3 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.

• Thompson v. Jaeger, 2010 ND 174 (2010, Sandstrom, J.) · quotes the provision
  • ¶ 6: “…onstitutional provisions and a related statutory provision to mean that every copy of a petition circulated for signatures must be accompanied by a sponsor page listing the names and addresses of the twenty-five sponsors. Thompson argues N.D. Const. art. III, § 2, "speaks only to the Secretary's approval, not to the form in which the petition must be circulated." Thompson argues that provision must be read in conjunction with N.D. Const, art. Ill, § 3, to provide that petitions…”
• RECALLND v. Jaeger, 2010 ND 250 (2010, Sandstrom, J.) · quotes the provision
  • ¶ 6: “…he Secretary of State's decisions made under the guidelines of section 6. Taken together, the amendment's language shows that sections 6 and 7 apply exclusively to initiative and referendum petitions. Not once is the recall process mentioned or referred to in sections 2 through 9. Accordingly, sections 6 and 7, N.D. Const. art. III, do not govern recall petitions.…”

• Haugen, et al. v. Jaeger, et al., 2020 ND 177 (2020, per curiam)
• Zaiser v. Jaeger, 2012 ND 221 (2012, Kapsner, J.)

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

• N.D. Op. Att'y Gen. (Mar. 31, 1992) (to Kusler)
• N.D. Op. Att'y Gen. (Nov. 20, 1987) (to Meier)
• N.D. Op. Att'y Gen. 87-08 (1987)

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