Title 11 — Counties
52 chapters · 646 sections in this title.
N.D.C.C. § 11-30-01 Counties may disorganize - Petition
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Whenever the board of county commissioners of any county having a population of less than four thousand inhabitants is petitioned so to do by twenty percent of the qualified electors of such county, as determined by the vote cast for the office of governor at the last preceding g…
N.D.C.C. § 11-30-02 Filing petition - Notice to state auditor
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The petition shall be filed with the county auditor who shall note thereon the date of filing. Not later than ten days thereafter, the county auditor shall send a written notice thereof by registered or certified mail to the state auditor.
N.D.C.C. § 11-30-03 State auditor to make audit of financial conditions - Contents of audit
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Within thirty days of the receipt of the registered or certified notice of the filing of a petition for the disorganization of a county, the state auditor shall make and complete an audit of the finances of the petitioning county and shall file an original and duplicate copy of t…
N.D.C.C. § 11-30-04 Notice of election - How given
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The county auditor shall publish notice of the election in the official newspaper of the county once each week for at least four successive weeks prior to the election. The notice shall contain the date of the election, a statement that the proposition to be voted on will be: "Sh…
N.D.C.C. § 11-30-05 Ballot - Form
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The ballot to be used in an election held under this chapter shall be in substantially the following form: Shall the county of __________ (name of county) be disorganized and become an unorganized county? Yes ☐ No ☐
N.D.C.C. § 11-30-06 Canvass of votes and return
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The votes polled upon the question of disorganizing the county shall be canvassed and returned in the manner provided for canvassing other votes polled at the same election.
N.D.C.C. § 11-30-07 Vote required - Manner and time of disorganization
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Within ten days after the filing of the findings and certificates of the canvassing board on the question of disorganization, the county auditor shall send a correct and duly certified abstract of the votes polled to the secretary of state. If fifty-five percent or more of all th…
N.D.C.C. § 11-30-10 Officers of organized county act in unorganized county
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All the officers and employees of the adjoining organized county to which a disorganized county is attached shall possess the same powers and jurisdiction with respect to, and within, the unorganized county as they possess with respect to and within their own county except as suc…
N.D.C.C. § 11-30-11 Officers of organized county bonded for benefit of unorganized county
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The officers and employees of the organized county to which the disorganized county is attached shall be bonded automatically in the state bonding fund as provided by law for the benefit of the disorganized county in the amounts for which the corresponding officers of the disorga…
N.D.C.C. § 11-30-12 Compensation of officers of organized county
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Each elected officer of the organized county to which a disorganized county is attached shall receive as compensation from the unorganized county for services rendered to it the sum of thirty dollars per annum for each one thousand inhabitants, or major fraction thereof, of the u…
N.D.C.C. § 11-30-15 Unorganized county in same judicial district as organized county
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An unorganized county shall be in the same judicial district as the organized county to which it is attached.
N.D.C.C. § 11-30-16 Actions transferred to courts of adjoining county
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All actions or suits of every nature that have been filed or are pending in any of the courts of the unorganized county on January first following the governor's proclamation, or that thereafter may arise or be instituted, must be transferred, brought, and tried in the courts of …
N.D.C.C. § 11-30-17 Notices - How posted and published in unorganized county
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All official and judicial notices relating to matters within the unorganized county shall be posted within such unorganized county in the manner provided for posting notices in organized counties. Published notices shall be published in a newspaper within the unorganized county, …
N.D.C.C. § 11-30-18 Unorganized county remains in same legislative district
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The unorganized county shall remain in the legislative district of which it was a part at the time of disorganization and shall have the same representation in the legislative assembly as it had prior to disorganization. 11-30-19. Levy of taxes in an unorganized county - Funds of…
N.D.C.C. § 11-30-20 Trial of criminal cases after disorganization
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All criminal cases transferred from a disorganized county to an adjoining organized county shall be tried by a jury drawn in the manner provided by the laws of this state from the qualified jurors residing within the limits of the territory which had constituted the disorganized …