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

Every citing reference in the corpus: 5 court opinions and 2 Attorney General opinions. Counts include the section's pre-1981 designation (§ 167), 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.

• State ex rel. Frich v. Stark County, 1905 ND 57 (1905, Engerud, J.) · construes, quotes the provision
  • “…jority of the voters in the organized county. The foregoing is sufficient to dispose of the case, but inasmuch as the point was fully argued by counsel, and as we are agreed that the act in question is also void because it is special legislation prohibited by section 167 of the Constitution, we will give our reasons for that conclusion. Bare inspection shows that it is a special law authorizing a change of the boundaries of the organized county of Stark. Can that result be accomplished…”
• State ex rel. Minehan v. Meyers, 1910 ND 9 (1910, Fisk, J.) · construes
  • “…to be segregated from McLean county the petitioners designated the east and north "bank" of the Missouri river as its western boundary, and if such designation is to be given a strict and literal interpretation, the proceedings might be held to conflict with section 167 of our Constitution, which provides that: "In the organization of new counties and in changing the lines of organized counties * * * the natural boundaries shall be observed as nearly as may be." The western boundary of…”

• State ex rel. Ulander v. County Commissioners of Burke and Renville Counties, 1922 ND 111 (1922, Bronson, J.)
• Braaten v. Olson, County Treasurer, 1914 ND 100 (1914, Bruce, J.)
• State ex rel. Frish v. Nohle, 1907 ND 31 (1907, Fisk, J.)

Advisory, not binding; included for the doctrine's full administrative history.

• N.D. Op. Att'y Gen. 2003-L-48 (2003)
• N.D. Op. Att'y Gen. 69-528 (1969) · citing § 167 (1889 numbering)

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