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To amend and reenact subsection 2 of section 12-2115 of the North Dakota Revised Code of 1943, relating to acts of Sabbath breaking, and declaring an emergency.

Be It Enacted by the Legislative Assembly of the State of North Dakota:

§ 1. Amendment.) Subsection 2 of section 12-2115 of the North Dakota Revised Code of 1943 is hereby amended and reenacted to read as follows:

2. Public sports, including shooting, sporting horse racing, or other public sports, circuses, and street carnivals. This section shall not apply to baseball when authorized by the governing body of any municipality to be played within the territorial limits of such municipality or by the board of county commissioners when played outside the limits of cities or villages and when conducted in a quiet and orderly manner so as not to interfere with the peace, repose, and comfort of the community and when played after one o'clock p.m. on the Sabbath day more than five hundred feet away from any church edifice.

§ 2. Emergency.) This Act is hereby declared to be an emergency and shall be in full force and effect from and after its passage and approval.

Approved March 11, 1955.