N.D. Const. art. IX, § 8 — Research

Leases. Text of the section: current and prior versions.

Every citing reference in the corpus: 5 court opinions and 4 Attorney General opinions. Counts include the section's pre-1981 designation (§ 161), era-gated by the renumbering crosswalk.

Generated from the citation graph of the validated corpus. Treatment groupings (construing / citing / recital) are heuristic reading aids, not editorial judgments — read the opinion before relying on any signal.

Topics are machine-generated groupings of the citing references — reading aids, not editorial judgments. Documents cited after the last classification pass appear in the lists below until the next pass.

• N.D. Att'y Gen.: N.D. Op. Att'y Gen. 2022-L-02 (2022)
• N.D. Att'y Gen.: N.D. Op. Att'y Gen. 2005-L-44 (2005)
• Wittmayer v. Security State Bank of Upham, 1928 ND 145 (1928, Berry, J.) · quotes the provision
  • “…county may remain unleased after the date advertised for the leasing, the board shall have authority to make contracts of lease for said lands to the first applicant therefor at not less than the minimum price thereof," examined and held not in conflict with section 161 of the Constitution which requires leasing of school lands to be made at public auction after notice. Attorneys and Law Firms Lemke & Weaver, of Fargo, for appellants. Benson & Benson, of Bottineau, for respondents. O…”
• Wittmayer v. Security State Bank of Upham, 1926 ND 145 (1926, per curiam) · quotes the provision
  • “…t, John Wittmayer's purchase contracts, upon which he says he relies in this action, are signed by the commissioner alone. The second ground is equally untenable. It seems that the trial court was impressed with the contention of counsel for plaintiffs that section 161 of the state Constitution limits the powers of even the board to lease any lands except at public auction, unless leased for use for pasture or hay land after having been offered at sale pursuant to notice, when no bids…”

• State ex rel. Rausch v. Amerada Petroleum Corp., 1951 ND 29 (1951, Burke, J.) · quotes the provision
  • “…pted it. 8. It is presumed that the people who adopted a constitutional provision intended a reasonable result and the courts will, if possible, give a constitutional provision a construction that will produce that result. 9. The restrictions contained in Section 161 of the North Dakota Constitution for the leasing of granted lands deal exclusively with leases with respect to pasturage, meadow purposes, and purposes of cultivation and do not embrace or include leases for the purpose…”

• N.D. Att'y Gen.: N.D. Op. Att'y Gen. 2012-L-02 (2012)
• N.D. Att'y Gen.: N.D. Op. Att'y Gen. 66-446 (1966)
• State ex rel. Board of University and School Lands of State v. Hanson, Commissioner of University and School Lands, 1934 ND 34 (1934, Burr, J.) · quotes the provision
  • “…mes into being only when it has been called into action by appropriate legislation. In my opinion this reasoning is [*209] fallacious, is not warranted by the language employed, and ignores other provisions of the Constitution which must be read with it. Thus section 161 of the Constitution provides: "The legislative assembly shall have authority to provide by law for the leasing of lands granted to the state for educational and charitable purposes. * * *" And section 165 provides: "The…”
• State ex rel. Kaufman v. Davis, State Board of Administration, 1930 ND 14 (1930, Christianson, J.) · quotes the provision

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