36-2-201. Questions may be reserved to district court.
Whenever an important or difficult matter of law or fact is to be decided in a contest or other proceeding pending before the board of land commissioners, or whenever in the judgment of the members of said board any of its members are for any reason disqualified from considering and deciding the questions or issues involved in any contest or other proceeding before such board, then and in that event, the board of land commissioners may on the motion of either party interested, or upon its own motion, cause the said contest or other proceeding to be reserved and sent to the district court for the county in which the land in controversy is situated.