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The legislature may delegate legislative powers, including the authority to create criminal penalties for violations of county ordinances, to a home rule county.
The provision in N.D.C.C. 11-09.1-05(5) limiting a home rule county's authority to regulate any industry or activity already regulated by state law applies only when there is an explicit state law or rule restraining the county's authority or when the industry or activity involved is already subject to substantial state control through broad, encompassing statutes or rules.
A county ordinance declaring that a dog that barks in an excessive or continuous manner is a public nuisance and that a person who owns or harbors the dog is guilty of an infraction does not reach a substantial amount of constitutionally protected conduct and is not unconstitutionally overbroad.
An ordinance declaring that a dog that barks in an excessive or continuous manner is a public nuisance is not unconstitutionally vague.
Under N.D. Const. art. VI, sec. 3, a procedural rule adopted by the Supreme Court must prevail in a conflict with a statutory procedural rule.
The signature of the prosecuting attorney on an information is not required to be sworn to upon oath.
A defendant charged with an infraction for violating a county ordinance, with a maximum penalty of a fifty-dollar fine with no possibility of imprisonment, does not have a constitutional right to a jury trial under N.D. Const. art. I, sec. 13.

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