Title 11 — Counties
52 chapters · 646 sections in this title.
N.D.C.C. § 11-21-01 Public administrator - Appointment - Term of office
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The presiding judge of the judicial district in which a county is located may, after consultation with the judges of the judicial district, appoint a public administrator for that county. A public administrator may be a corporation or limited liability company. The initial appoin…
N.D.C.C. § 11-21-02 Bond of public administrator - Conditions
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The bond of the public administrator shall run to the state of North Dakota for the benefit of any party who may be damaged by a breach of the conditions thereof. Whether the bond is issued by the state bonding fund or by a surety company, it shall guarantee that the public admin…
N.D.C.C. § 11-21-03 Bond of public administrator may be increased - Annual statement
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The judge of the district court shall require the public administrator to make a statement annually, under oath, of the amount of property in the administrator's hands or under the administrator's control as administrator, for the purpose of ascertaining the amount of bond necess…
N.D.C.C. § 11-21-04 Filing of bond and oath
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The public administrator shall file the administrator's oath and bond with the judge of the district court. The bond and oath must be recorded at length in the record books of the court.
N.D.C.C. § 11-21-04.1 Liability coverage for public administrators
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[Expired under S.L. 2015, ch. 94, § 2]
N.D.C.C. § 11-21-05 Duties and powers of public administrator
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The public administrator shall be ex officio public special administrator, guardian, and conservator in and for the county and shall take into the administrator's charge, without application to any appropriate court or special appointment, the estates of all deceased persons, and…
N.D.C.C. § 11-21-06 May act as general and special administrator, guardian, and conservator
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The public administrator shall have the same powers as are conferred upon special administrators, guardians, and conservators, and shall be subject to the same duties, penalties, provisions, and proceedings as are enjoined upon or authorized against special administrators, guardi…
N.D.C.C. § 11-21-07 Public administrator to prosecute necessary suits
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The public administrator shall institute all manner of suits and prosecutions that may be necessary to recover the property, debts, papers, or other estate of any deceased person or of any minor or incapacitated person when such estate or person is in the administrator's charge o…
N.D.C.C. § 11-21-08 Compensation of public administrator
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The public administrator shall receive the same compensation for services as is allowed by law to executors, administrators, guardians, and conservators unless the court, for special reasons, allows a higher compensation.
N.D.C.C. § 11-21-09 Public administrator not to charge attorney's fees - Penalty
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A public administrator shall not charge a fee as an attorney in the administration of the estates of decedents of which the public administrator shall be the administrator. Any person who shall violate this section is guilty of an infraction. 11-21-10. Public administrator to act…
N.D.C.C. § 11-21-11 Civil officers to inform public administrator as to property
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All civil officers shall inform the public administrator of all property and estate known to them which is liable to loss, waste, or injury and which, by law, ought to be in the hands of the public administrator.
N.D.C.C. § 11-21-12 Giving notice on taking charge of estate - Penalty for failure
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The public administrator, immediately upon taking charge of any estate except one over which the administrator has taken charge under the order of the district court for the purpose of administering the same, shall file in the office of the district court a notice that the admini…
N.D.C.C. § 11-21-13 Court may order public administrator to account to successors
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The district court, at any time and for good cause shown, may order the public administrator to account for and deliver all money, property, or papers belonging to an estate in the administrator's hands, to the administrator's successor in office, to the heirs of the estate, or t…
N.D.C.C. § 11-21-14 Removal from office
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The public administrator may be removed from office in the same manner and for the same reasons as other public officers may be removed except that for the reasons specified in sections 11-21-03 and 11-21-12 a public administrator may be removed summarily upon the motion of the j…