North Dakota Constitution

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Section 12. The following public institutions of the state are permanently located at the 
places hereinafter named, each to have the lands specifically granted to it by the United States 
in  the Act  of  Congress approved February 22,  1889,  to be disposed of  and used in such 
manner as the legislative assembly may prescribe subject to the limitations provided in the 
article on school and public lands contained in this constitution.

1. The seat of government at the city of Bismarck in the county of Burleigh.

2. The state university and the school of mines at the city of Grand Forks, in the county 
of Grand Forks.

3. The North Dakota state university of agriculture and applied science at the city of 
Fargo, in the county of Cass.

4. A state normal school at  the city of  Valley City,  in the county of  Barnes, and the 
legislative assembly, in apportioning the grant of eighty thousand acres of land for 
normal schools made in the Act of Congress referred to shall grant to the said normal 
school  at  Valley City,  as  aforementioned,  fifty  thousand (50,000)  acres,  and said 
lands are hereby appropriated to said institution for that purpose.

5. The school for the deaf and hard of hearing at the city of Devils Lake, in the 
county of Ramsey.

6. A state training school at the city of Mandan, in the county of Morton.

7. A state normal school at the city of Mayville, in the county of Traill, and the legislative 
assembly in apportioning the grant of lands made by Congress in the Act aforesaid 
for state normal schools shall assign thirty thousand (30,000) acres to the institution 
hereby located at Mayville, and said lands are hereby appropriated for said purpose.

8. A state hospital for the care of individuals with mental illness at the city of Jamestown, in the county of Stutsman. 
And the legislative assembly shall appropriate twenty thousand acres of the grant of 
lands made by the Act of Congress aforesaid for other educational and charitable 
institutions to the benefit and for the endowment of said institution, and there shall be 
located at or near the city of Grafton, in the county of Walsh, a facility for individuals with developmental disabilities, on the grounds purchased by the secretary of the interior for a 
penitentiary building.

[Amended Nov. 5, 2024]