Title 36 — Livestock

In this chapter, unless the context or subject matter otherwise requires: 1. "Animal unit" means a cow, a bull, or a steer, or five sheep over six months of age on the first day of May of the year in which the age is being determined. Two horses are equivalent to three animal uni…

A nonprofit corporate or cooperative grazing association may be organized and operated under the general law governing corporate or cooperatives and this chapter, with the following additional power to: 1. Lease from the United States or any of its departments, corporations, or a…

The name of any cooperative grazing association organized and operating under this chapter or authorized to do business hereunder must include the words "grazing association", and no other association may use such words in its name.

Any person may become a member of a corporate or cooperative grazing association if the person: 1. Is an owner or lessee of land within the proposed boundaries or resides on the border of the grazing area within or without the county; 2. Is engaged in the raising of livestock wit…

The association may establish through its bylaws various subdistricts within the grazing district. When subdistricts are so established, one director of the association must be elected from each subdistrict by the majority vote of the members therein who are eligible to vote. If …

Articles of association for grazing associations are subject to the general law governing cooperatives, and must also set forth whether the property and grazing rights and interests of each member of the association are equal or unequal, and if unequal, the general rule or rules …

No member of a cooperative grazing association is permitted to graze more than five hundred animal units during a full twelve-month period in any one year. A member may be permitted, however, to graze a correspondingly larger number for a shorter grazing period during each year.

Directors of a grazing association are subject to the general law governing directors of cooperatives, and may also: 1. Make such regulations for the management and control of the affairs of the association and of the manner of utilization of grazing within its district not incon…

Any cooperative grazing association organized under the provisions of this chapter, upon completion of its organization and incorporation, shall file with the recorder of the county and with the dean of the school of agriculture of the North Dakota state university of agriculture…

Repealed by omission from this code.