Court Opinion

ID: 9667914
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-08-24 01:57:38.961928+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T18:15:41.509054
License: Public Domain

PEDERSON, Judge
(concurring specially)-
I concur in the result reached by the majority that Chapter 25, subdivision 17, 1975 Session Laws, violates Section 84 of the North Dakota Constitution. I also concur in the determination that the opinion shall have prospective application only, and with the statements of the necessity therefor.
Although legislative enactments are entitled to a presumption of regularity, this decision should stand for the proposition that the judiciary will not avoid its duty to prevent evasion of the Constitution by sham. Accordingly, I find it necessary to decline to concur with paragraph 5 of the syllabus, and its supporting statements, because it appears to leave the door open to language manipulation to evade a constitutional prohibition.