Title 39, Motor Vehicles

1. It is a class A misdemeanor for an individual who is at least twenty-one years of age to violate section 39-08-01 if the violation occurred while a minor was accompanying the individual in a motor vehicle. If an individual has a previous conviction for a violation of section 3…

1. Notwithstanding section 39-08-01: a. All but ten days of the minimum mandatory sentence required for a defendant charged with a third or subsequent violation of section 39-08-01 may be suspended on the condition the defendant successfully completes a treatment court program, m…

1. The court shall seal an individual's criminal record in accordance with sections 12.1-32-07.1 and 12.1-32-07.2 which relates to a conviction under section 39-08-01, if the individual: a. Has pled guilty or nolo contendere to, or has been found guilty of a violation under secti…

No person owning or having the direction or control of any vehicle for the conveyance of passengers in this state may employ or continue in the person's employment as a driver of such vehicle any person who is known to the actor to be addicted to a controlled substance or given t…

Any person is guilty of reckless driving if the person drives a vehicle: 1. Recklessly in disregard of the rights or safety of others; or 2. Without due caution and circumspection and at a speed or in a manner so as to endanger or be likely to endanger any person or the property …

1. No person may engage in exhibition driving of any vehicle on a highway, street, alley, sidewalk, or any public or private parking lot or area, nor may any person engage in a race, a speed competition, drag race or acceleration contest, test of physical endurance, or exhibition…

1. The driver of any vehicle involved in an accident resulting in injury to or death of any person shall immediately stop or return with the vehicle as close as possible to the scene of the accident and in every event shall remain at the scene of the accident until that driver ha…

Any person who is an unpaid volunteer, who in good faith, renders emergency care or services at or near the scene of an accident, disaster, or other emergency, or en route to a treatment facility, is not liable to the recipient of the emergency care or services for any damages re…

The driver of any vehicle involved in a crash resulting only in property damage to the driver's vehicle or any other vehicle shall immediately stop the vehicle at the scene of the crash or as close to the scene of the crash as possible but shall return to and remain at the scene …

The driver of any vehicle involved in an accident resulting in injury to or the death of any person or damage to any vehicle which is driven or attended by any person shall give the driver's name and address, and the name of the motor vehicle insurance policy carrier of the drive…

The driver of any vehicle which collides with any vehicle which is unattended shall immediately stop and shall then and there either locate and notify the operator or owner of the vehicle of the name and address, as well as the name of the motor vehicle insurance policy carrier, …

The driver of any vehicle involved in a crash resulting only in damage to highway fixtures or other property shall take reasonable steps to locate and notify the owner or person in charge of the property of the damage. The driver shall provide the driver's name, address, and regi…

1. The driver of a vehicle involved in an accident resulting in injury to or death of any individual, or property damage to an apparent extent of at least four thousand dollars, shall immediately give notice of the accident to the local police department if the accident occurs wi…

Every law enforcement officer, who in the regular course of duty investigates a motor vehicle crash required to be reported as provided in section 39-08-09 either at the time and at the scene of the crash or thereafter by interviewing the participants, or witnesses, shall make an…

1. In the event of serious injury to or death of any person, under circumstances leading to the notification of a law enforcement agency, the investigating law enforcement agency shall, upon positive identification of the person or persons involved, be responsible for immediately…

1. A crash notice is not required from any person who is physically incapable of making the report during the period of such incapacity. 2. Whenever the driver of a vehicle is physically incapable of giving an immediate notice of a crash and there was another occupant in the vehi…

1. The director shall prepare and supply to law enforcement agencies, garages, and other suitable agencies or individuals forms for crash reports required by law, appropriate with respect to the purposes to be served. The reports to be made by investigating officers shall call fo…

1. All crash reports made by persons involved in crashes or by garages shall be without prejudice to the individual so reporting and shall be for the confidential use of the department or other state agencies having use for the records for crash prevention purposes, or for the ad…

The director shall tabulate and may analyze all crash reports and shall publish annually, or at more frequent intervals, statistical information based thereon as to the number and circumstances of traffic crashes.

Any incorporated city or other municipality may by ordinance require that the driver of a vehicle involved in a crash shall file with a designated city department a report of such crash or a copy of any report herein required to be filed with the director. All such reports must b…

1. A person may not drink or consume alcoholic beverages, as defined in section 5-01-01, in or on any motor vehicle when the vehicle is upon a public highway or in an area used principally for public parking. A person may not have in that person's possession on that person's pers…

Any person operating a motorcycle, snowmobile, or other motor vehicle who willfully harasses or frightens any domestic animal, is, upon conviction, guilty of a class B misdemeanor. If injury or death results to the animal due to such action, such person is liable for the value of…

1. A person may not drive, or the owner may not cause or knowingly permit to be driven, a motor vehicle in this state without a valid policy of liability insurance in effect in order to respond in damages for liability arising out of the ownership, maintenance, or use of that mot…

If a person causes damage to another or another's property with a motor vehicle while in violation of section 39-08-20, at minimum the court shall order that person to pay to the other person the amount of the deductible on that person's insurance.

Special mobile equipment is not subject to the requirement of a motor vehicle liability policy under section 39-08-20. However, special mobile equipment must be covered under a liability policy. Failure to provide satisfactory evidence of liability coverage required under this se…

Notwithstanding the adoption by the superintendent of the state highway patrol of federal motor carrier safety regulations pursuant to subsection 3 of section 39-21-46, the provisions of 49 CFR 391.41(b)(1)-(11) do not apply to a person who is qualified through a state medical wa…

1. For a theft offense in violation of chapter 12.1-23 which involves a person who leaves the premises of an establishment at which motor fuel is offered for retail sale after motor fuel was dispensed into the fuel tank of a motor vehicle that that person drove away without havin…

1. The operator of a motor vehicle that is part of traffic may not use a wireless communications device to compose, read, or send an electronic message. 2. Under this section: a. "Electronic message" means a self-contained piece of digital communication that is designed or intend…

An individual at least sixteen and under eighteen years of age who has been issued a class D license may not operate an electronic communication device to talk, compose, read, or send an electronic message while operating a motor vehicle that is in motion unless the sole purpose …

1. An operator of a motor vehicle may not fail to maintain control of that motor vehicle. An individual is in violation of this section if that individual: a. Commits an offense under this title and, at the time of the offense, the individual was engaged in the operation of a mot…