N.D. Cent. Code § 23-01-01.1
23-01-01.1. Department of health and human services to replace state department of health and consolidated laboratories
23-01-01.1. Department of health and human services to replace state department of
health and consolidated laboratories.
The legislative council shall replace, where appropriate, "North Dakota state department of
health", "department of health", "health department", "state department of health and
consolidated laboratories", "North Dakota state laboratories department", "state laboratories
department", "state laboratories department director", "state laboratories director", "state
department of health", or any derivatives of those terms, which when used in context indicate an
intention to refer to those terms, wherever they appear in this code, and in the North Dakota
Administrative Code, with "department of health and human services" or an appropriate
derivative of that phrase. The legislative council may replace references to the "state
department of health" or any derivatives of that term with "department of health and human
services" in any measure enacted by the sixty-seventh legislative assembly.