Title 39 — Motor Vehicles
51 chapters · 808 sections in this title.
N.D.C.C. § 39-09-01 Basic rule - Penalty for violation
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1. An individual may not drive a vehicle at a speed greater than is reasonable and prudent under the conditions and shall drive with regard to existing actual and potential hazards. An individual shall drive at a safe and appropriate speed when approaching and crossing an interse…
N.D.C.C. § 39-09-01.1 Care required in operating vehicle
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Any person driving a vehicle upon a highway shall drive the vehicle in a careful and prudent manner, having due regard to the traffic, surface, and width of the highway and other conditions then existing, and shall give such warnings as are reasonably necessary for safe operation…
N.D.C.C. § 39-09-02 Speed limitations
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1. Subject to the provisions of section 39-09-01 and except in those instances when a lower speed is specified in this chapter, it presumably is lawful for the driver of a vehicle to drive the same at a speed not exceeding: a. Twenty miles [32.19 kilometers] an hour when approach…
N.D.C.C. § 39-09-04 Alteration of maximum speed limits on state highways
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The maximum speed limits specified in section 39-09-02 may be altered on all or any part of the state highway system by an administrative order by the director after holding a public hearing. The determination must be based on engineering and traffic investigations with primary c…
N.D.C.C. § 39-09-04.1 Special speed limitations
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1. No person may drive any vehicle equipped with solid rubber tires at a speed greater than a maximum of ten miles [16.09 kilometers] per hour. 2. No person may drive a vehicle over any bridge or other elevated structure constituting a part of a highway at a speed which is greate…
N.D.C.C. § 39-09-07 Speed zones on state highways
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Whenever the director with respect to highways and the superintendent of the North Dakota state highway patrol shall jointly determine upon the basis of an engineering and traffic investigation that the speed of vehicular traffic on a state highway is greater or less than is reas…
N.D.C.C. § 39-09-07.1 Speed zones - Reduction limitation
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1. Except under subsections 2 and 3, a street, road, or highway in the state highway system or any other township, county, or state road or highway may not be posted in a manner which reduces the maximum speed limit on the street, road, or highway by more than twenty miles [32.19…
N.D.C.C. § 39-09-08 Regulation of speed control signs
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Repealed by S.L. 1975, ch. 349, § 41.
N.D.C.C. § 39-09-09 Minimum speed limits
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1. An individual may not drive a motor vehicle at a reduced speed so as to impede the normal and reasonable movement of traffic except when reduced speed is necessary for safe operation or in compliance with law. 2. If the director and the superintendent of the highway patrol, ac…