North Dakota Code § 52-10-10

Identification of enlarged or reorganized public school district - Liability of
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surviving district.
1. As used in this section, "most populous district" means the public school district 
involved in annexation or reorganization of school districts:
a. Which maintained an elementary school;
b. More than one -half of which is included in the enlarged or reorganized public 
school district; and
c. Which had a larger number of children of school age at the school census next 
preceding the inclusion of such district in the enlarged or reorganized public 
school district than any other public school district of the type described in 

subdivisions a and b which is included in the enlarged or reorganized public 
school district.
2. For the purposes of this chapter when an enlarged or reorganized school district is 
formed:
a. The most populous district must be deemed to be the surviving district for social 
security purposes.
b. The enlarged or reorganized public school district shall retain the same 
identification number which was previously assigned to the most populous 
district, as defined in subsection 1.
c. The school districts, or parts thereof, included in the enlarged or reorganized 
district must be deemed to be annexed to the most populous district, or the part 
of the most populous district included in the enlarged or reorganized district, and 
to become identified with it, and the employees of the public school districts 
included in the enlarged or reorganized district, or if only part of a district is 
included in the enlarged or reorganized district, the employees who were 
employed in schools included within the enlarged or reorganized district must be 
deemed to be employees of the most populous district, which shall succeed the 
other districts in such enlarged district as a party to their respective contracts of 
employment.

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