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A Decade of County Government Reorganization in North Dakota

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 September 2013

Ernest Engelbert
Ernest Engelbert
Affiliation:
Bureau of Agricultural Economics, U. S. Department of Agriculture.
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No state better represents a period of local government reorganization than North Dakota. The 1941 legislative session climaxed for that state a decade of reorganization attempts to make adjustments in the institution of county government. The 1941 legislature added to consolidation and disorganization laws enacted in previous legislative sessions three alternative forms of county government—the “County Manager Form,” the “Short Form of County Managership,” and the “County Consolidated Office Form.” As if these did not permit enough variation in reorganization, a Governmental Survey Commission has been created to recommend to the next legislature any changes in either state or local government that may seem necessary.

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Local Government Politics
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American Political Science Review , Volume 36 , Issue 3 , June 1942 , pp. 508 - 515
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Copyright © American Political Science Association 1942

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1 The 1941 legislature also amended the disorganization law.

2 Laws of North Dakota, 1941, ch. 131.

3 Ibid., ch. 132.

4 Ibid., ch. 130.

5 Ibid., ch. 216.

6 The 1938 amendment left out the provisions that the consolidation must be approved by the counties concerned and that county treasurers and sheriffs were to be limited to two consecutive two-year terms.

7 Wernimont, Kenneth, in National Municipal Review, Nov., 1939, pp. 769–772, 796.CrossRefGoogle Scholar

8 Laws of North Dakota, 1939, ch. 112. (The amendment was ratified at the primary election of June, 1940.)

9 Laws of North Dakota, 1941, ch. 130, sec. 3.

10 The North Dakota law has no special provisions for the officer who acts in the capacity of county judge. There is, however, some question whether the office of judge can be so combined with that of county auditor, since Art. 4, Sec. 110, of the constitution specifically provides for the position of county judge. This section was not included in the constitutional amendment.

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