Title 24 — Highways, Bridges, and Ferries
18 chapters · 331 sections in this title.
N.D.C.C. § 24-06-01 Board of township supervisors has supervision over township roads
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The board of township supervisors of any township in the state has general supervision over the roads, highways, and bridges throughout the township.
N.D.C.C. § 24-06-02 Township may purchase road machinery - Credit terms
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The board of supervisors of any township may contract for and purchase, upon credit or otherwise, any road machinery, implements, or equipment for the use of such township.
N.D.C.C. § 24-06-03 Election required if road machinery costs more than four hundred dollars
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Repealed by S.L. 1975, ch. 241, § 1.
N.D.C.C. § 24-06-04 Cost of township road machinery - How paid
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Road implements purchased by a township must be paid out of the highway taxes of the township and may be paid in not to exceed five annual installments. A copy of the note or contract issued upon the purchase must be filed in the office of the township clerk, and such township cl…
N.D.C.C. § 24-06-05 Overseer responsible for machinery
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Each overseer of highways is responsible personally for the proper use and care of all implements while in the overseer's charge, or in use in the overseer's district, and any overseer of highways, or other person who, through negligence or willfully injures or damages such imple…
N.D.C.C. § 24-06-06 Storage of implements
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Each board of township supervisors shall provide suitable places for the storage and proper housing of all tools, implements, and machinery owned by the township and shall cause such tools, implements, and machinery to be stored and housed therein when not in use.
N.D.C.C. § 24-06-07 Road machinery - Sale, purchase, lease
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In townships owning road machinery, the board of township supervisors may make such disposition of the same as in its discretion is best for the interests of the township, or it may purchase or lease such machinery as may be necessary.
N.D.C.C. § 24-06-08 Contracts for township road improvements - Notice - Bids
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Repealed by S.L. 1953, ch. 181, § 1. 24-06-09. Contract for township road and bridge work by county, township, or soil conservation district. The board of supervisors of any township may enter into a contract with the board of county commissioners of the county, the board of supe…
N.D.C.C. § 24-06-10 Roads contiguous to municipality - Grades - How established
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In all places where highways are improved and graded under the contract system in a township where land contiguous to, adjoining, and outside of the limits of any city has been surveyed into a block or blocks and divided into city lots, the person to whom such contract is awarded…
N.D.C.C. § 24-06-11 Construction of crossings over ditches, drains, and roads
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Whenever a township constructs a ditch or drain in connection with road building, and such ditch, drain, or road interferes with the ingress or egress of any owner of adjoining land, the township shall install crossings at such point or points as will afford the owner or owners o…
N.D.C.C. § 24-06-12 Townships may unite efforts
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The electors of any township, at the annual township meeting, may direct such portion of the road tax to be expended on the highways in an adjoining township as they deem conducive to the interests of the township. In such instance, labor and taxes must be expended under the join…
N.D.C.C. § 24-06-14 District overseer of highways
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In unorganized territory, the board of county commissioners shall appoint a district overseer of highways whose power and duties are the same as in an organized township, and whose compensation must be fixed by the board of county commissioners to be paid on presentation of a ver…
N.D.C.C. § 24-06-15 Road taxes in unorganized territory - How expended
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The board of county commissioners shall order the expenditure of all road taxes paid into the county treasury from unorganized territory in the improvement of the highways, paying the district overseer of highways, purchasing implements, and repairing bridges in the road district…
N.D.C.C. § 24-06-16 Report of district overseer of highways
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On or before the first Monday in January in each year, each district overseer of highways appointed by the board of county commissioners shall make a report to the board of the overseer's doings as such during the preceding year, the amount of labor performed, and the number of d…
N.D.C.C. § 24-06-17 Road taxes must be paid in cash
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All road taxes and assessments upon persons or property must be paid in cash, and the township clerk, immediately after the board of township supervisors has made the levy of taxes for road purposes, shall notify the county auditor of the amount of the levy. The county auditor sh…
N.D.C.C. § 24-06-18 Road taxes to be paid to local subdivisions
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Repealed by S.L. 1953, ch. 179, § 2.
N.D.C.C. § 24-06-19 Expenditure of road taxes
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The board of township supervisors shall order the expenditure of all road taxes paid into the township treasury in the improvement of the highways under such regulations as it may deem most expedient for the public interests, and for this purpose, shall issue a warrant upon the r…
N.D.C.C. § 24-06-20 Work on roads to proceed upon levy of taxes
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The officers charged with the duty of expending road taxes may proceed at once, upon the levy of taxes, with the work upon the roads in their districts and may cause warrants to be issued in payment thereof in anticipation of the current year's taxes.
N.D.C.C. § 24-06-21 Road tax may be worked out
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Repealed by S.L. 1951, ch. 178, § 5.
N.D.C.C. § 24-06-22 Supervisors to fix compensation for road work, when
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Repealed by S.L. 1951, ch. 178, § 5.
N.D.C.C. § 24-06-23 County commissioners to fix rate, when
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Repealed by S.L. 1951, ch. 178, § 5.
N.D.C.C. § 24-06-24 Compensation for road work when not fixed
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Repealed by S.L. 1951, ch. 178, § 5.
N.D.C.C. § 24-06-25 Work done prior to August first
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Repealed by S.L. 1951, ch. 178, § 5.
N.D.C.C. § 24-06-26 Ditches to drain highways - Proceedings to establish
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Whenever any overseer of highways files with the board of township supervisors or with the board of county commissioners, as the case may be, the overseer's affidavit stating that a certain road in the overseer's district runs into or through swamp, bog, meadow, or other lowland,…
N.D.C.C. § 24-06-26.1 Township road and drainage construction standards
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When the construction or reconstruction of a township road or bridge, the insertion of a culvert in a township road, or the construction or reconstruction of a ditch or drain in connection with a township road affects the flow of surface waters and increases the surface waterflow…
N.D.C.C. § 24-06-26.2 Maintenance of township road ditches - Limited duty
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The party with an interest in land adjacent to a township road is not responsible for maintaining that ditch unless improper conservation practices on that party's adjoining land have led to unreasonable wind and water erosion, not commonly experienced in the locality, which resu…
N.D.C.C. § 24-06-27 Penalty for injuring ditch
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Any person who obstructs or in any way injures any ditch opened as provided in section 24-06-26 is liable to pay to the overseer of highways of such road district double the damages caused by such injury, which must be assessed by the jury or court, and also is guilty of a class …
N.D.C.C. § 24-06-30 Removal of fences - Notice - Cost
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When a public highway is opened along any section line, the board of county commissioners or the board of township supervisors, as the case may be, shall notify the owner of adjacent property to remove any fences not constructed pursuant to subsection 2 of section 24-06-28 within…
N.D.C.C. § 24-06-31 Obstructions in highway
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Each overseer of highways having personal knowledge, or on being notified in writing, of any obstruction in the highway or public street in the overseer's district immediately shall remove or cause any such obstruction to be removed. The overseer's district may seek recovery of c…
N.D.C.C. § 24-06-32 Penalty for refusal to serve as road overseer
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Repealed by S.L. 1949, ch. 193, § 1.
N.D.C.C. § 24-06-33 Method of construction of highway ditches
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Repealed by S.L. 1953, ch. 177, § 120.
N.D.C.C. § 24-06-34 Notice to water resource districts
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Whenever a county or township plans to construct or reconstruct a bridge, install or modify a culvert, or construct or reconstruct a drain in connection with a roadway or railway, the county or township shall provide notice in any way to the water resource board of the water reso…