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-SECTION 1. MAXIMUM AGE OF 80 YEARS. No person may be elected or appointed to serve a term or a portion of a term in the U.S. Senate or the U.S. House of
+[[artxvi:sec1:start|SECTION 1. MAXIMUM AGE OF 80 YEARS.]]
-Representatives if that person could attain 81 years of age by December 31st of the year immediately preceding the end of the term.
-SECTION 2. BALLOT ACCESS RESTRICTION. Notwithstanding any judicial determination regarding the enforceability of section 1, no candidates who would be barred
+[[artxvi:sec2:start|SECTION 2. BALLOT ACCESS RESTRICTION.]]
-from service under section 1 shall be permitted to appear on the ballot to be nominated for, or elected to, such offices.
-SECTON 3. BALLOT ADVISORY. In the event superior law requires age-limited candidates to appear on the ballot in primary or general elections in contravention of
+[[artxvi:sec3:start|SECTION 3. BALLOT ADVISORY.]]
-section 2, the following ballot advisory shall appear parenthetically next to the names of all candidates for all federal legislative offices in future elections: “Candidate
-would be [candidate age on December 31st of the year immediately preceding the end of term] years old by end of term.”
-SECTION 4. IMPLEMENTATION. This article shall take effect immediately and apply to any nomination for, or election to, a federal legislative office held at any election
+[[artxvi:sec4:start|SECTION 4. IMPLEMENTATION.]]
-or by any other nominating method held after the effective date of this law.
-i. Any elector shall have standing to enforce this article. To expedite legal review, any otherwise eligible person may file to appear on the primary election ballot
+[[artxvi:sec5:start|SECTION 5. SEVERABILITY.]]
-or to use alternate statutory nomination methods for a federal legislative office for the 2026 elections immediately after this law takes effect. Any denial of a
-filing under the terms of this article during the 2026 early filing period shall provide immediate standing in the courts of this state to challenge the limited
-question of whether the denial violates Article 1 of the United States Constitution.
-ii. Any action filed under this section shall be advanced on the docket and a final judgment shall be entered within 60 days. Any appeal of the judgment shall be
-noticed within 10 days. The North Dakota State Supreme Court shall have jurisdiction over the appeal and shall issue its order and mandate within 60 days of
-the filing of the notice of appeal.
-iii. The Attorney General shall zealously defend all portions of this section, in the courts of this state or of the United States, as an exercise of an important and
-fundamental state interest. In any action commenced in a court of this state, any elector residing within the district of an applicable office shall be permitted
-to timely join in the defense of this section as a real party in interest.
-SECTION 5. SEVERABILITY. The provisions of this article are severable, and if any provision is held to be invalid, either on its face or as applied, the remaining provisions
-and their application shall not be affected thereby. In any case of a conflict between any provision of this article and any other provision of this constitution, the
-provisions of this article shall control.