Title 39, Motor Vehicles
51 chapters · 787 sections in this title.
N.D.C.C. § 39-21-43 Display of warning devices when vehicle disabled
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1. Whenever any truck, bus, truck tractor, trailer, semitrailer, or pole trailer eighty inches [20.32 decimeters] or more in overall width or thirty feet [91.44 decimeters] or more in overall length is stopped upon a roadway or adjacent shoulder, the driver shall immediately actu…
N.D.C.C. § 39-21-44 Vehicle transporting explosives or hazardous materials - Administrative procedure and judicial review
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Any person operating any vehicle transporting any explosive or hazardous material as a cargo or part of a cargo upon a highway shall comply with this section. 1. The vehicle must be equipped with at least one fire extinguisher, filled and ready for immediate use, and placed at a …
N.D.C.C. § 39-21-44.1 Vehicle to be constructed to prevent sifting or leaking loads
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No vehicle may be driven or moved on any highway unless it is so constructed or loaded as to prevent its contents from dropping, sifting, leaking, or otherwise escaping therefrom, except that sand may be dropped for the purpose of securing traction, or water or other substance ma…
N.D.C.C. § 39-21-44.2 Drawbar or connection between vehicles - Precautions required
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The drawbar or other coupling device between vehicles, one of which is towing or drawing the other on a highway, must include safety chains connecting the vehicles. The drawbar or other coupling device, and the safety chains, must be of a design, strength, and construction so as …
N.D.C.C. § 39-21-45 Air-conditioning equipment
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1. The term "air-conditioning equipment", as used or referred to in this section, means mechanical vapor compression refrigeration equipment which is used to cool the driver's or passenger compartment of any motor vehicle. 2. Air-conditioning equipment must be manufactured, insta…
N.D.C.C. § 39-21-45.1 Modification of motor vehicle
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1. An individual who operates a registered motor vehicle on a highway may not modify that vehicle unless the modification meets the following requirements: a. Any modifying equipment must meet any other requirement applicable to a vehicle under chapter 39-21. b. If tires placed o…
N.D.C.C. § 39-21-46 Scope and effect of equipment requirements - Penalty
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1. It is unlawful for any person to drive or move, or for the owner to cause or knowingly permit to be driven or moved, on any highway any vehicle or combination of vehicles which the actor knows does not contain those parts or is not at all times equipped with lamps and other eq…
N.D.C.C. § 39-21-50 Slow-moving vehicles required to display identification emblem - Penalty
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All implements of husbandry, as defined in section 39-01-01, and machinery, including all road construction machinery, designed for operation at a speed of twenty-five miles [40.23 kilometers] an hour or less, must display either a triangular slow-moving vehicle emblem or a rotat…
N.D.C.C. § 39-21-51 Alteration of odometers or other mileage recorders, hour meters on tachometers, or other hour recorders - Penalty
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A person may not willfully, as defined in section 12.1-02-02, alter a motor vehicle odometer or other mileage recorder, hour meter on tachometer, or other hour recorder, or offer for sale or sell a motor vehicle knowing the odometer or other mileage recorder has been altered, for…
N.D.C.C. § 39-21-52 Exemption for certain street rod, collector, or special interest motor vehicles
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The provisions of this chapter or chapter 37-12-02 of the North Dakota Administrative Code relating to bumpers, tires, and fenders do not apply to street rod, collector, or special interest motor vehicles. However, a street rod, collector, or special interest vehicle must have al…
N.D.C.C. § 39-21-53 Retractable axle control requirements
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1. For a motor vehicle manufactured after July 31, 2005, variable load suspension or retractable axles, or both, raised or lowered by air, hydraulic, or other pressure must have the lock or pressure regulator valve, or both, positioned outside the cab and inaccessible from the dr…
N.D.C.C. § 39-21-54 Requirement for steerable, castering, or pivoting axles
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A single unit vehicle or any vehicle in combination may not be equipped with more than four axles unless the additional axles are steerable, castering, or pivoting axles.
N.D.C.C. § 39-21-56 Definitions - Prohibition on counterfeit and nonfunctional airbag - Penalty
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1. As used in this section: a. "Airbag" means an inflatable occupant restraint system device in a motor vehicle which is part of a supplemental restraint system. b. "Counterfeit supplemental restraint system component" means a replacement supplemental restraint system component t…