====== N.D. Const. art. V, § 4 — Research ======

**Qualifications.** Text of the section: [[.:start|current and prior versions]].

Every citing reference in the corpus: **2** court opinions and **6** Attorney General opinions. Counts include the section's pre-1981 designation (§ 74), era-gated by the renumbering crosswalk.

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== Five-year residency requirement ==

  * Oversen, et al. v. Jaeger, [[https://www.ndcourts.gov/supreme-court/opinions/78420|2020 ND 190]] (2020, per curiam)  ·  quotes the provision
    * //¶ 5: “…%%On August 26, 2020, this Court granted a writ of injunction restraining Jaeger from placing Martin's name on the November 3, 2020 general election ballot. Berg, 2020 ND 178, ¶ 31. We concluded N.D. Const. art. V, § 4 requires a person to have been a resident of this state for the five years preceding the election to be eligible to hold elective office in the executive branch. Id. at ¶ 11. We adopted the district court's finding that%%…”//
  * Berg v. Jaeger, et al., [[https://www.ndcourts.gov/supreme-court/opinions/121268|2020 ND 178]] (2020, per curiam)  ·  quotes the provision
    * //¶ 11: “…%%Eligibility to hold elective office in the executive branch is governed by N.D. Const. art. V, § 4, which states that "[t]o be eligible to hold an elective office established by this article, a person must be a qualified elector of this state, must be at least twenty-five years of age on the day of the election, and%%…”//

== Qualifications for constitutional executive offices ==

  * N.D. Att'y Gen.: [[https://attorneygeneral.nd.gov/wp-content/uploads/2023/02/2012-L-07.pdf|N.D. Op. Att'y Gen. 2012-L-07 (2012)]]
  * N.D. Att'y Gen.: [[https://attorneygeneral.nd.gov/wp-content/uploads/2023/02/2007-L-05.pdf|N.D. Op. Att'y Gen. 2007-L-05 (2007)]]
  * N.D. Att'y Gen.: [[https://attorneygeneral.nd.gov/wp-content/uploads/2023/03/76-86.pdf|N.D. Op. Att'y Gen. 76-86 (1976)]]
  * N.D. Att'y Gen.: [[https://attorneygeneral.nd.gov/wp-content/uploads/2023/03/69-350.pdf|N.D. Op. Att'y Gen. 69-350 (1969)]]

== Application to local and district offices ==

  * N.D. Att'y Gen.: [[https://attorneygeneral.nd.gov/wp-content/uploads/2023/02/2009-L-16.pdf|N.D. Op. Att'y Gen. 2009-L-16 (2009)]]
  * N.D. Att'y Gen.: [[https://attorneygeneral.nd.gov/wp-content/uploads/2023/02/98john01.pdf|N.D. Op. Att'y Gen. 98-L-57 (1998)]]

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