North Dakota Constitution

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===== Section 8. =====

The legislative assembly shall have authority to provide by law for the leasing 
of lands granted to the state for educational and charitable purposes; but no such law shall 
authorize the leasing of said lands for a longer period than five years. Said lands shall only be 
leased for pasturage and meadow purposes and at a public auction after notice as heretofore 
provided in case of sale; provided, that all of said school lands now under cultivation may be 
leased, at the discretion and under the control of the board of university and school lands, for 
other than pasturage and meadow purposes until sold. All rents shall be paid in advance.
Provided, further, that coal lands may also be leased for agricultural cultivation upon such 
terms and conditions and for such a period, not exceeding five years, as the legislature may 
provide.