Title 40 — Municipal Government
85 chapters · 759 sections in this title.
N.D.C.C. § 40-54-01 Bids - Advertising - Requirements
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On or before the fifteenth day of March in each year, the city auditor of each city within the state may at the discretion of the governing board advertise in the official newspaper once each week for two consecutive weeks for bids for the furnishing of gravel in place for gravel…
N.D.C.C. § 40-54-02 Awarding contract - Failure to advertise for bids
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If bids have been called for at the first regular meeting of the governing body in the month of April in each year, the bids shall be opened and the contract for the furnishing of gravel shall be awarded to the lowest responsible bidder who has complied with the requirements of t…
N.D.C.C. § 40-54-03 Hearing upon petition - Notice - Decision
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Upon petition of the owners of not less than fifty percent of the property, measured by front feet, on both sides of any street or portion thereof, not less than one block in length, for gravel surfacing of such street or portion thereof, the governing board may give notice of su…
N.D.C.C. § 40-54-04 Notification of award of contract - Contractor's duty - Project number
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If the governing board shall determine that such graveling project should be undertaken, it shall direct its street department to prepare the surface of such street or portion thereof for such gravel surfacing, and the city engineer shall notify and direct the holder of the contr…
N.D.C.C. § 40-54-05 Assessments
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The entire cost of furnishing gravel, together with the cost of the legal notices and engineering services involved, and including the cost of gravel used at street intersections, shall thereupon be assessed against the property adjoining such street upon a front foot basis by th…
N.D.C.C. § 40-54-07 City auditor to keep gravel assessment book
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The city auditor shall keep in the city auditor's office a book called "gravel assessment book" and shall enter therein the costs certified by the city engineer and governing body as an assessment against the lots or parcels of land adjoining any such graveling project constructe…
N.D.C.C. § 40-54-08 Payment of assessments - Interest
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All assessments for gravel projects shall be payable in equal annual amounts extending over such period as may be determined by the governing body, not exceeding three years, and shall bear interest at an annual rate of not more than two percentage points above the average net an…
N.D.C.C. § 40-54-09 Separate fund for project - Warrants
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All moneys received by a municipality from assessments for any graveling project shall be kept in a separate fund designated as "graveling district number ______________". Warrants shall be drawn on such fund for the payment of the cost of such gravel project.
N.D.C.C. § 40-54-10 Gravel assessment warrants - How paid - Interest - Contents
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All gravel assessment warrants shall be payable as specified and in such amounts as in the judgment of the governing body will be provided by such special assessments. The warrants shall bear interest at a rate or rates and be sold at a price resulting in average net interest cos…
N.D.C.C. § 40-54-11 Warrants payable from special graveling fund
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The city auditor shall pay such special gravel assessment warrants and interest coupons as they mature and are presented for payment out of the graveling special fund, and shall cancel the same when paid, and the provisions of section 40-26-08 shall apply in the case of deficienc…
N.D.C.C. § 40-54-12 Optional method of graveling streets
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It is the intent of this chapter to provide an optional and discretionary method of graveling streets and levying special assessments therefor in addition to those provided by existing statutes, and in all matters not specifically provided for in this chapter, the provisions of c…