This text of North Dakota § 40-01.1-01 (Advisory study of local governance options) is published on Counsel Stack Legal Research, covering North Dakota primary law. Counsel Stack provides free access to over 12 million legal documents including statutes, case law, regulations, and constitutions.
An advisory study committee may be established under this chapter to provide local citizens
and leaders with the means for fully and adequately studying options available for positioning
their local governments for effective, creative, and efficient service in the future, in a manner
suited to the economic, social, geographic, demographic, and other circumstances influencing
the needs and resources of local communities. An advisory study committee is encouraged to
prepare a comprehensive program for the performance of local government functions and the
furnishing of local government services within the jurisdiction of the governing body or
cooperating governing bodies that established the committee. In its study, the committee may
consider:
1.The need for maintaining citizen access to, co
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An advisory study committee may be established under this chapter to provide local citizens
and leaders with the means for fully and adequately studying options available for positioning
their local governments for effective, creative, and efficient service in the future, in a manner
suited to the economic, social, geographic, demographic, and other circumstances influencing
the needs and resources of local communities. An advisory study committee is encouraged to
prepare a comprehensive program for the performance of local government functions and the
furnishing of local government services within the jurisdiction of the governing body or
cooperating governing bodies that established the committee. In its study, the committee may
consider:
1. The need for maintaining citizen access to, control of, and participation in local
government;
2. The existing land use within the area, including the location of highways and natural
geographic barriers to, and routes for, transportation;
3. The need for organized local government functions, services, and controls; the present
cost and adequacy of local government functions, services, and controls; probable
future needs for those functions, services, and controls; and the probable effect of
alternative courses of action on the cost and adequacy of local government functions,
services, and controls;
4. The trends in population density and distribution, and the potential or likelihood for
significant growth or decline;
5. The tax base and other factors bearing on the capacity for local government to provide
essential functions and services necessary to the general welfare of local citizens;
6. The boundaries of existing units of local government;
7. Data necessary for analyzing the strengths, weaknesses, challenges, and
opportunities that are unique to the community; and
8. Other factors that may affect the provision of local government functions, services, and
controls.