Title 49 — Public Utilities
33 chapters · 382 sections in this title.
N.D.C.C. § 49-19-01 Definition of common pipeline carriers
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Every person: 1. Owning, operating, or managing any pipeline or any part of any pipeline within this state for the transportation of crude petroleum, gas, coal, or carbon dioxide to or for the public for hire, or engaged in the business of transporting crude petroleum, gas, coal,…
N.D.C.C. § 49-19-02 Pipeline carriers - Special powers of commission
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The commission shall take reports from and may investigate the books and records kept by any pipeline carrier in connection with its business, and may require such company to make monthly reports duly verified under oath showing the total quantity of crude petroleum owned by such…
N.D.C.C. § 49-19-03 Enforcement of orders by commission
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The commission shall hear and determine complaints, require attendance of witnesses, and institute suits and sue out such writs and process as may be necessary for the enforcement of its orders.
N.D.C.C. § 49-19-04 Reservation in gas franchises
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No city or other public corporation hereafter shall grant to any person a franchise to furnish natural gas to the public in this state without making a reservation therein that a percentage of native natural gas shall be used by such person if and when the same is produced in com…
N.D.C.C. § 49-19-05 Percentage of native natural gas to be used
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Whenever native natural gas is produced in this state in commercial quantities, any person having a franchise to furnish gas to the public, which franchise is dated after March 9, 1933, shall use fifty percent, or its equivalent, of native natural gas as developed if the source t…
N.D.C.C. § 49-19-06 Gas in commercial quantities - What constitutes
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Any gas well of two hundred fifty thousand cubic feet [7079.21 cubic meters] volume and two hundred pounds [90.72 kilograms] of rock pressure shall constitute a well producing native natural gas in commercial quantities under the provisions of this chapter.
N.D.C.C. § 49-19-07 Pro rata distribution of gas
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All wells having the production specified in section 49-19-06 shall be entitled to supply an equal pro rata share of products to be used by any person holding a franchise to furnish gas to the public.
N.D.C.C. § 49-19-08 Operation of pipelines
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The operation of the pipelines to which this chapter applies, for the transportation of crude petroleum, coal, or gas in connection with the purchase or purchase and sale of such crude petroleum, coal, or gas, is a business in the conduct of which the public is interested, and as…
N.D.C.C. § 49-19-09 Permission to secure right of way - Condition
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The right to lay, maintain, and operate pipelines, together with telecommunications lines incidental to and designed for use only in connection with the operation of such lines along, across, or under any public stream or highway in this state, is conferred upon all common pipeli…
N.D.C.C. § 49-19-10 Compensating county for damage to public road in laying pipelines
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In the exercise of the privileges conferred in section 49-19-09, the common pipeline carrier shall compensate the county for any damage done to any public road in the laying of pipelines, or telecommunications lines, along or across the same. Nothing herein shall be construed to …
N.D.C.C. § 49-19-11 Pipeline carrier must agree to carry without discrimination
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A common pipeline carrier, in the acceptance of the provisions of this chapter, shall agree expressly that it, without discrimination, will accept, carry, or purchase, the oil, coal, gas, or carbon dioxide of the state or of any person not the owner of any pipeline, operating a l…
N.D.C.C. § 49-19-12 When pipeline carrier may exercise right of eminent domain
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Every common pipeline carrier which shall have filed with the commission its acceptance of the provisions of this chapter has, subject to chapter 32-15, the right and power of eminent domain in the exercise of which it may enter upon and condemn the land, right of way, easements,…
N.D.C.C. § 49-19-13 Hearings on rates of pipeline carrier - Power of commission
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The commission shall establish and enforce rates or charges and regulations for gathering, transporting, loading, and delivering crude petroleum, coal, or gas by common pipeline carriers in this state, and for the use of storage facilities necessarily incident to such transportat…
N.D.C.C. § 49-19-14 Reimbursement of excessive rates to shipper
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In the event that any rate shall be filed by any common pipeline carrier and complaint against the same or a petition to reduce the same shall be filed by any shipper, and such complaint shall be sustained, in whole or in part, all shippers who shall have paid the rates so filed …
N.D.C.C. § 49-19-16 Commission to make rules on deductions - Orders prima facie evidence
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The commission also shall make rules for the ascertainment of the amount of water and other foreign matter in oil or gas tendered for transportation, and for deduction therefor, and for the amount of deduction to be made for temperature, leakage, and evaporation. The recital here…
N.D.C.C. § 49-19-17 Pipeline carriers to make and publish tariffs
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Common pipeline carriers shall make and publish their tariffs under such rules and regulations as may be prescribed by the commission.
N.D.C.C. § 49-19-18 Joint action by commissions to regulate interstate commerce
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Where pipelines within the scope of this chapter are engaged in interstate transportation of oil, coal, or gas, the commission shall act jointly and in conjunction with the supervisory body which exercises jurisdiction over and control of such pipelines within any other state for…
N.D.C.C. § 49-19-20 Duties of pipeline carriers
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Subject to the provisions of this chapter and the rules and regulations which may be prescribed by the commission, every common pipeline carrier shall receive and transport crude petroleum, coal, or gas delivered to it for transportation and shall receive and transport the same a…
N.D.C.C. § 49-19-21 Oil and gas wastes - Dangerous field operations - Commission to regulate
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Repealed by S.L. 1983, ch. 399, § 3. 49-19-22. Violation of law or rules by pipeline carriers - Penalty - Suit by attorney general. Repealed by S.L. 1975, ch. 106, § 673.
N.D.C.C. § 49-19-23 Unlawful discrimination - Damages - Suit
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Actual damages also may be recovered by and for the use of any person against whom there shall have been an unlawful discrimination prohibited by this chapter. Such suit shall be brought in the name and for the use of the party aggrieved.
N.D.C.C. § 49-19-24 Individuals guilty of discrimination - Penalty
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Repealed by S.L. 1975, ch. 106, § 673.
N.D.C.C. § 49-19-25 Fraudulent consumption of gas - Punishment
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Repealed by S.L. 1975, ch. 106, § 673.