§ 36-2-201 — Questions may be reserved to district court

Whenever an important or difficult matter of law or fact is to
be decided in a contest or other proceeding pending before the
board of land commissioners, or whenever in the judgment of the
members of said board any of its members are for any reason
disqualified from considering and deciding the questions or
issues involved in any contest or other proceeding before such
board, then and in that event, the board of land commissioners
may on the motion of either party interested, or upon its own
motion, cause the said contest or other proceeding to be
reserved and sent to the district court for the county in which
the land in controversy is situated.