N.D. Const. art. XI, § 10 — Research

Officers Subject to Impeachment. Text of the section: current and prior versions.

Every citing reference in the corpus: 8 court opinions and 1 Attorney General opinion. Counts include the section's pre-1981 designation (§ 196), era-gated by the renumbering crosswalk.

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.

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.

• Saefke v. Vande Walle, 1979 ND 73 (1979, per curiam)
• State ex rel. Olson v. Langer, 1934 ND 67 (1934, Burke, J.) · quotes the provision
  • “…lies upon section 194 of the Constitution, which gives the House of Representatives the sole power of impeachment; section 195 of the Constitution, which gives the Senate the sole power of hearing and determining the case on impeachment; and particularly upon section 196 of the Constitution, which reads as follows: "The governor and other state and judicial officers, except county judges, justices of the peace and police magistrates, shall be liable to impeachment for habitual drunkenne…”
• Goughnour v. Brant, 1921 ND 34 (1921, Christianson, J.) · quotes the provision
  • “…option of the amendment "the Governor and other state and judicial officers, except county judges, justices of the peace and police magistrates," were liable to impeachment and might be removed from office by impeachment, and in this manner only. N. D. Const. § 196. "All officers not liable to impeachment" were "subject to removal for misconduct, malfeasance, crime or misdemeanor in office, or for habitual drunkenness or gross incompetency in such manner as may be provided by law.…”

• State ex rel. Kositzky v. Prater, 1922 ND 86 (1922, Bronson, J.)
• State ex rel. Wehe v. Frazier, 1921 ND 28 (1921, Birdzell, J.) · quotes the provision
  • “…tend further than removal from office and disqualification to hold any office of trust or profit under the state. The person accused, whether convicted or acquitted, shall nevertheless be liable to indictment, trial, judgment and punishment according to law." Section 196, Constitution. "All officers not liable to impeachment shall be subject to removal for misconduct, malfeasance, crime or misdemeanor in office, or for habitual drunkenness or gross incompetency in such manner as may b…”
• Diehl v. Totten, 1915 ND 171 (1915, Burke, J.) · quotes the provision
  • “…hat the election of United States Senators and members of Congress is a matter within the jurisdiction of the United States government. That the election of the members of the local Legislature is a matter entirely governed by the Legislature itself, and that section 196, Constitution of North Dakota, provides that: The "Governor and other state and judicial officers, excepting county judges, justices of the peace and police magistrates, shall be liable to impeachment. * * *" That s…”
• State v. Richardson, 1906 ND 97 (1906, Knauf, J.) · quotes the provision
  • “…1061; Woods v. Varnum, 85 Cal. 639, 24 Pac. 843; Fuller v. Ellis (Mich.) 57 N. W. 33; State v. Peterson (Minn.) 52 N. W. 655. The method for removal of public officials other than by impeachment, is left to the Legislature [*1028] by constitutional provision. Section 196 of the Constitution of this state provides that "the Governor and other state and judicial officers, except county judges, justices of the peace and police magistrates shall be liable to impeachment," and section 197 pr…”

• N.D. Att'y Gen.: N.D. Op. Att'y Gen. 82-54 (1982)
• Snortland v. Crawford, 1981 ND 91 (1981, Paulson, J.)

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