NORTH DAKOTA CONSTITUTION
ARTICLE IV
LEGISLATIVE BRANCH
Art. IV §1 | STRUCTURE OF THE LEGISLATIVE ASSEMBLY
Art. IV §2 | APPORTIONMENT AND ELECTORAL EQUALITY
The legislative assembly shall guarantee, as nearly as is practicable, that every elector is equal to every other elector in the state in the power to cast ballots for legislative candidates. A senator and at least two representatives must be apportioned to each senatorial district and be elected at large or from subdistricts from those districts. The legislative assembly may combine two senatorial districts only when a single member senatorial district includes a federal facility or federal installation, containing over two-thirds of the population of a single member senatorial district, and may provide for the election of senators at large and representatives at large or from subdistricts from those districts.
Art. IV §3 | BIENNIAL ELECTION CYCLES
Art. IV §4 | LEGISLATIVE TERM DURATIONS
Art. IV §5 | RESIDENCY AND ELIGIBILITY REQUIREMENTS
Art. IV §6 | RESTRICTIONS ON HOLDING OFFICE
Art. IV §7 | LEGISLATIVE SESSION PROCEDURES
The legislative assembly shall meet at the seat of government in the month of December following the election of the members thereof for organizational and orientation purposes as provided by law and shall thereafter recess until twelve noon on the first Tuesday after the third day in January or at such other time as may be prescribed by law but not later than the eleventh day of January.
No regular session of the legislative assembly may exceed eighty natural days during the biennium. The organizational meeting of the legislative assembly may not be counted as part of those eighty natural days, nor may days spent in session at the call of the governor or while engaged in impeachment proceedings, be counted. Days spent in regular session need not be consecutive, and the legislative assembly may authorize its committees to meet at any time during the biennium. As used in this section, a "natural day" means a period of twenty-four consecutive hours.
Neither house may recess nor adjourn for more than three days without consent of the other house.
Art. IV §8 | PRESIDING OFFICERS AND LEADERSHIP
Art. IV §9 | BRIBERY AND CORRUPTION PREVENTION
Art. IV §10 | DISQUALIFICATION FOR CRIMINAL CONDUCT
Art. IV §11 | FILLING LEGISLATIVE VACANCIES
Art. IV §12 | QUORUM AND LEGISLATIVE PROCEEDINGS
Each house is the judge of the qualifications of its members, but election contests are subject to judicial review as provided by law. If two or more candidates for the same office receive an equal and highest number of votes, the secretary of state shall choose one of them by the toss of a coin.
Each house shall determine its rules of procedure, and may punish its members or other persons for contempt or disorderly behavior in its presence. With the concurrence of two-thirds of its elected members, either house may expel a member.
Art. IV §13 | JOURNALS, VOTES, AND BILL PASSAGE
No law may be enacted except by a bill passed by both houses, and no bill may be amended on its passage through either house in a manner which changes its general subject matter. No bill may embrace more than one subject, which must be expressed in its title; but a law violating this provision is invalid only to the extent the subject is not so expressed.
Every bill must be read on two separate natural days, and the readings may be by title only unless a reading at length is demanded by one-fifth of the members present.
No bill may be amended, extended, or incorporated in any other bill by reference to its title only, except in the case of definitions and procedural provisions.
The presiding officer of each house shall sign all bills passed and resolutions adopted by the legislative assembly, and the fact of signing shall be entered at once in the journal.
Every law, except as otherwise provided in this section, enacted by the legislative assembly during its eighty natural meeting days takes effect on August first after its filing with the secretary of state, or if filed on or after August first and before January first of the following year ninety days after its filing, or on a subsequent date if specified in the law unless, by a vote of two-thirds of the members elected to each house, the legislative assembly declares it an emergency measure and includes the declaration in the Act. Every appropriation measure for support and maintenance of state departments and institutions and every tax measure that changes tax rates enacted by the legislative assembly take effect on July first after its filing with the secretary of state or on a subsequent date if specified in the law unless, by a vote of two-thirds of the members elected to each house, the legislative assembly declares it an emergency measure and includes the declaration in the Act. An emergency measure takes effect upon its filing with the secretary of state or on a date specified in the measure. Every law enacted by a special session of the legislative assembly takes effect on a date specified in the Act.
The legislative assembly shall enact all laws necessary to carry into effect the provisions of this constitution. Except as otherwise provided in this constitution, no local or special laws may be enacted, nor may the legislative assembly indirectly enact special or local laws by the partial repeal of a general law but laws repealing local or special laws may be enacted.
Art. IV §14 | TRANSPARENCY AND PUBLIC ACCESS
Art. IV §15 | LEGISLATIVE PRIVILEGES AND IMMUNITIES
Art. IV §16 | AMENDING THE STATE CONSTITUTION
Art. IV §17 | REPEALED
Art. IV §18 | REPEALED
Art. IV §19 | RENUMBERED
Art. IV §20 | REPEALED
Art. IV §21 | REPEALED
Art. IV §22 | REPEALED
Art. IV §23 | REPEALED
Art. IV §24 | REPEALED
Art. IV §25 | REPEALED
Art. IV §26 | REPEALED
Art. IV §27 | REPEALED
Art. IV §28 | REPEALED
Art. IV §29 | REPEALED
Art. IV §30 | REPEALED
Art. IV §31 | REPEALED
Art. IV §32 | REPEALED
Art. IV §33 | REPEALED
Art. IV §34 | REPEALED
Art. IV §35 | REPEALED
Art. IV §36 | REPEALED
Art. IV §37 | REPEALED
Art. IV §38 | REPEALED
Art. IV §39 | REPEALED
Art. IV §40 | REPEALED
Art. IV §41 | REPEALED
Art. IV §42 | REPEALED
Art. IV §43 | REPEALED
Art. IV §44 | REPEALED
Art. IV §45 | REPEALED
Art. IV §46 | REPEALED
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