Ethics: North Dakota's Conflict of Interest Definition

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North Dakota's Policy Statutory Reference

TITLE 44  Offices and Officers
CHAPTER 44-04  Duties, Records, and Meetings
44-04-22.  Conflict of interest law.

A person acting in a legislative or quasi-legislative or judicial or quasi-judicial capacity for a political subdivision of the state who has a direct and substantial personal or pecuniary interest in a matter before that board, council, commission, or other body, must disclose the fact to the body of which that person is a member, and may not participate in or vote on that particular matter without the consent of a majority of the rest of the body.

N.D. Cent. Code, § 44-04-22 (2007).

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