North Dakota Code 15.1-12-01 – Definitions
In this chapter, unless the context otherwise requires:
Terms Used In North Dakota Code 15.1-12-01
- Attachment: A procedure by which a person's property is seized to pay judgments levied by the court.
- Process: means a writ or summons issued in the course of judicial proceedings. See North Dakota Code 1-01-49
- Property: includes property, real and personal. See North Dakota Code 1-01-49
- Real property: Land, and all immovable fixtures erected on, growing on, or affixed to the land.
- State: when applied to the different parts of the United States, includes the District of Columbia and the territories. See North Dakota Code 1-01-49
1. “Annexation” means the alteration of a school district’s boundaries through the removal of real property from one school district and its attachment to another contiguous school district.
2. “Contiguous” means two or more tracts of real property which share a common point or which would share a common point but for an intervening road or right of way.
3. “Dissolution” means the process through which a school district ceases to function and the subsequent attachment of its real property to other school districts.
4. “Reorganization” means the formation of a new school district through the combination, in whole or in part, of two or more school districts.
5. “State board” means the state board of public school education.