Title 11, Counties

The board of county commissioners shall meet and hold regular meetings for the transaction of business at a time and place to be designated by the commission on a date certain established by resolution or ordinance of the commission. The county auditor shall have power to call sp…

If feasible, the boards of county commissioners of affected counties shall hold joint public hearings and deliberations when considering the proposed property tax levy of a taxing district seeking authority for a levy against property within multiple counties. If joint hearing an…

The meetings of the board of county commissioners shall be open to the public. All matters pertaining to the affairs of the county shall be considered by the board in session only, but it may continue any business from a regular session to a day between regular sessions.

A majority of the members elected or appointed to the board of county commissioners shall constitute a quorum for the transaction of its business. When the board is equally divided on any question, it shall defer its decision thereon until its next meeting, at which time the matt…

At the first meeting of the board of county commissioners each year, the members of the board shall elect one of their number chairman, who shall act as chairman of such board during the year in which the chairman is elected or until the chairman's successor is elected, and in ca…

The board of county commissioners shall procure and keep a seal with such emblems and devices as it may think proper, which shall be the seal of the county, and no other seal shall be used by the county auditor. The impression of the seal shall be sufficient sealing in all cases …

The board of county commissioners has power to preserve order when sitting as a board and may punish contempts by fines of not more than five dollars or by imprisonment in the county jail for not more than twenty-four hours. The board may enforce obedience to its orders by attach…

The board of county commissioners: 1. Shall superintend the fiscal affairs of the county. 2. Shall supervise the conduct of the respective county officers. 3. May cause to be audited and verified the accounts of all officers having the custody, management, collection, or disburse…

The board of county commissioners, at the first meeting of the board each year, shall examine the county treasurer's satisfaction of tax lien book and stub receipts and ascertain the amount of satisfaction of tax lien money in the treasury, and shall require the treasurer to acco…

The board of county commissioners shall have the following powers: 1. To institute and prosecute civil actions for and on behalf of the county and in its name. 2. To make all orders respecting property of the county. 3. To levy a tax not exceeding the amount authorized by law. 4.…

The board of county commissioners may procure for its county certified copies of the field notes and plats of the original surveys by the United States of the lands within its county and may cause a map of the county to be constructed therefrom on a scale of not less than one inc…

The board of county commissioners may provide for the purchase, erection, repair, and maintenance of the courthouse, hospitals, jails, and other necessary buildings within and for the county. It may purchase the sites for such county buildings if necessary and may make contracts …

Whenever the board of county commissioners of any county is required by law to lay out, oversee, and supervise the building or repairing of roads and bridges, including the appointment of a district overseer of highways' duties in unorganized territory, or the building or repairi…

If, in the opinion of a majority of the members of the board of county commissioners, acquisition of land is, or may become, necessary for the courthouse or the jail, or for the purpose of beautifying county buildings, or to prevent the erection of other buildings so near to the …

Unless a lease purchase or building authority agreement is approved by a vote of the majority of the qualified electors of a county, the governing body of a county may not enter a lease purchase or building authority agreement for the acquisition of any property or construction o…

If any county shall levy a tax for a specific purpose and the moneys collected are not expended or encumbered within two years after their collection, the board of county commissioners may deposit such taxes in the county general fund or authorize their expenditure by any politic…

For the purchase of fuel when the amount exceeds four thousand dollars, the board of county commissioners shall seek bids either by telephone solicitation from at least two suppliers, or by an advertisement for bids to be published at least once each week for two successive weeks…

The advertisement must state what type of fuel is required and when the bids will be opened and passed upon by the board of county commissioners. The bids may be opened and passed upon at a regular or adjourned session of the board, or at a meeting called by the county auditor as…

A bid shall be accompanied by a separate envelope containing a bidder's bond in a sum equal to five percent of the full amount of the bid, executed by the bidder as principal and by a surety company authorized to do business in this state as a guarantee that the bidder will enter…

A contract shall be entered into under the provisions of this chapter only after it has been approved by the vote of a majority of the members of the board of county commissioners. The contract shall be made in writing and may be signed on behalf of the board by the chairman ther…

Contracts for the furnishing of election ballots and supplies shall be let by the board of county commissioners at its first regular meeting in April of each year to run for a period of one year.

Whenever there remains in the treasury of a county an unexpended balance of a special fund and all claims against the fund have been paid, and the purpose for which it was created has been subserved fully, and there remains no further use for the balance for the purpose for which…

The county auditor, county treasurer, and some qualified elector and freeholder of the county appointed by the board of county commissioners from outside of its own number shall act as a board of auditors to audit accounts of the board of county commissioners in connection with t…

The board of county commissioners shall keep a book in which all orders and decisions made by it shall be recorded. Such book shall be known as "a record of the proceedings of the board of county commissioners". All orders and vouchers for the allowance and payment of moneys from…

The board of county commissioners shall conduct the business of its meetings under the following order of business: 1. Meeting called to order by chairman of the board. 2. Roll call of members. 3. Reading of minutes of previous meeting, corrections to be made, if any, and approva…

The board of county commissioners shall supply to the official newspaper of the county a full and complete report of its official proceedings at each regular and special meeting no later than seven days after the meeting at which the report is read and approved. The publisher of …

Copies of the proceedings of the board of county commissioners, duly certified and attested by the county auditor under seal, shall be received as evidence in all courts of this state.

An appeal may be taken to the district court from any decision of the board of county commissioners by any aggrieved person. The appellant shall file an undertaking in such reasonable sum and with such sureties as may be approved by the county auditor, conditioned that the appell…

If the decision from which an appeal is taken relates to tax refunds, tax abatements, or other matters relating to taxation, in addition to the notice of appeal required by section 28-34-01, a notice of appeal also must be served by registered mail upon the state tax commissioner…

An appeal from a decision of a board of county commissioners shall be filed on or before the first day of the term of the district court following the taking of the appeal, and the cause shall stand for trial at such term.

All appeals taken from decisions of a board of county commissioners must be docketed as other causes pending in the district court. Section 28-34-01 governs all appeals taken under sections 11-11-39 through 11-11-43.

The district court may enter a final judgment on an appeal from a decision of a board of county commissioners and cause the judgment to be executed, or it may send the judgment to the board with an order showing how to proceed. The court may require the board to comply with its o…

The property of a county and of persons owning property situated or liable to taxation therein shall not be subject to the lien of a judgment against the county nor to seizure or sale upon execution or other process of any court issued in connection with any such judgment.

The board of county commissioners may offer a reward for the apprehension and conviction of each individual violating any of the provisions of chapters 12.1-21 and 12.1-23.

The board of county commissioners shall equip and maintain an adequate room in the courthouse or county office building for the priority preference use of former members of the armed services of the United States if the county seat has a population of over ten thousand inhabitant…

The signers of any petition presented to the board of county commissioners praying for the expenditure of county funds shall be qualified electors of the district affected by the petition.

The board of county commissioners of any county, or the governing body of any municipal corporation, or the board of any public library in the state is hereby authorized and empowered to furnish a room or rooms in the county courthouse, in a municipal building, or in a public lib…

1. The board of county commissioners of any county may appropriate out of the general fund of the county a sum, not exceeding five thousand dollars annually, to be paid to the historical society of the county and used for the promotion of historical work within the borders of the…

Any historical object or artifact given, donated, or otherwise acquired by a county historical society, upon acceptance by the state historical society, may revert to the state historical society if such local society should cease to function, exist, or no longer operate, unless …

The board of county commissioners of any county in this state which has received a gift real or personal property to be used for fair purposes is hereby authorized to transfer such property, or if the property is sold by the board of county commissioners, then to transfer the pro…

The board of county commissioners shall have the power to enter into agreements with private landowners for the purpose of making improvements on private roads. The board shall charge the landowner for the improvements made pursuant to such agreement, and such charges shall const…

1. The board of county commissioners of any county, by resolution or upon receipt of a petition of sixty percent of the landowners in a defined area, outside of the limits of any incorporated city, may install the petitioned improvements as benefit the defined area, provide for t…

Any county may engage in comprehensive health planning and may appropriate funds to an areawide comprehensive health planning organization organized and approved under provisions of the state plan for comprehensive health planning, whether such organization be a public agency or …

Boards of county commissioners may perform, within their respective counties, predatory animal, destructive bird, and injurious rodent control as defined in section 4-01-17.1, and may enter into cooperative agreements with the agriculture commissioner and the United States depart…

In order to perform bird and animal control, boards of county commissioners are authorized to make necessary expenditures from county special funds available for this purpose or from the county general or contingent funds.