====== N.D. Const. art. VII, § 9 — Research ======

**Petition to Change Form of County Government.** Text of the section: [[.:start|current and prior versions]].

Every citing reference in the corpus: **3** court opinions and **5** Attorney General opinions. Counts include the section's pre-1981 designation (§ 150), era-gated by the renumbering crosswalk.

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===== Cases by topic =====

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== Elimination or redesignation of elective county offices ==

  * N.D. Att'y Gen.: [[https://attorneygeneral.nd.gov/wp-content/uploads/2023/02/98KOPP01-not-op.pdf|N.D. Op. Att'y Gen. (May 14, 1998)]]
  * N.D. Att'y Gen.: [[https://attorneygeneral.nd.gov/wp-content/uploads/2023/02/9814.pdf|N.D. Op. Att'y Gen. 98-F-14 (1998)]]

== Constitutional status of county offices as elective or appointive ==

  * Goughnour v. Brant, [[https://www.courtlistener.com/opinion/6851046/goughnour-v-brant/|1921 ND 34]] (1921, Christianson, J.)
  * O'Laughlin v. Carlson, [[https://www.courtlistener.com/opinion/6849689/olaughlin-v-carlson/|1915 ND 79]] (1915, Christianson, J.)

== Election and qualifications of the county superintendent of schools ==

  * N.D. Att'y Gen.: [[https://attorneygeneral.nd.gov/wp-content/uploads/2023/03/78-44.pdf|N.D. Op. Att'y Gen. 78-44 (1978)]]
  * N.D. Att'y Gen.: [[https://attorneygeneral.nd.gov/wp-content/uploads/2023/03/66-90.pdf|N.D. Op. Att'y Gen. 66-90 (1966)]]
  * Jenness v. Clark, [[https://www.courtlistener.com/opinion/6848969/jenness-v-clark/|1910 ND 149]] (1910, Fisk, J.)  ·  construes
    * //“…%%d, a county superintendent of schools, whose term of office shall be two years, commencing on the first Monday in January following his election, and until his successor is elected and qualified. * * *" Respondent's counsel contends that this section violates section 150 of the Constitution, which reads: "A superintendent of schools for each county shall be elected every two years, whose qualifications, duties, powers and compensation shall be fixed by law." It is argued by respondent's%%…”//

== Other applications ==

  * N.D. Att'y Gen.: [[https://attorneygeneral.nd.gov/wp-content/uploads/2023/04/46-36.pdf|N.D. Op. Att'y Gen. 46-36 (1946)]]

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