Title 57, Taxation

1. The county auditor, on or before December thirty-first following the levy of the taxes, shall prepare and transmit to the tax commissioner a complete abstract of the tax list of the auditor's county. 2. In addition to the tax list required in subsection 1, the county auditor, …

On or before December tenth in each year, the county auditor shall deliver the tax lists of the several districts of the county to the county treasurer, taking the treasurer's receipt therefor. Such lists are authority for the county treasurer to receive and collect taxes therein…

The county treasurer must be the receiver and collector of all taxes extended upon the list, including the state levy and the levies of every other taxing district or municipality, and including special taxes for local improvements in municipalities, and all fines, forfeitures, o…

1. On or before December twenty-sixth of each year, the county treasurer shall mail a real estate tax statement to the owner of each parcel of real property at the owner's last-known address. The form of the real estate tax statement to be used in every county must be prescribed …

1. The owner, operator, or lessee of transmission lines, for which payments in lieu of property taxes are assessed by the state board of equalization under section 57-06-17.3, is entitled to a credit against tax in the amount provided in subsection 3. The credit for each transmis…

Upon the payment of any tax, if directed by the board of county commissioners, the county treasurer shall give to the county auditor a receipt therefor showing the name and post-office address of the person who paid the tax, the amount and date of payment, the land, lot, or other…

Except as provided in section 57-20-21.1, the county treasurer shall allow a five percent discount to all taxpayers who shall pay all of the real estate taxes levied on any tract or parcel of real property in any one year in full on or before February fifteenth prior to the date …

Real estate taxes, either current or delinquent, may be paid in installments of not less than ten percent of the amount of the tax, plus penalty and interest if any, but each such installment in no event may be less than ten dollars. Credit must be given on the tax records for th…

The county treasurer shall receive in payment of taxes, county warrants on the several funds for which taxes may be levied, to the amount of the tax for such fund, without regard to priority of the numbers of the warrants, except when otherwise provided by law, and the county tre…

When any person desiring to pay any taxes due and unpaid presents a warrant on the road fund of that person's road district, in payment of such taxes as it may be applied to, which shall exceed the amount that the treasurer is authorized to receive in such warrants in payment of …

The county treasurer, and other officials charged with the duty of collecting public moneys, in their discretion, may accept bank checks, bank drafts, and express and post-office money orders in payment of any tax, assessment, fee, or license. Upon payment of taxes, the treasurer…

The acceptance of any check, draft, or money order in payment of any tax, fee, or license does not constitute payment until it has been duly honored and paid, and acceptance is subject to collection.

The county treasurer or other official, accepting checks, drafts, or money orders in payment of any tax, assessment, fee, or license, shall deposit the same in the manner provided by law. If thereafter any check, draft, or money order is returned unpaid to the bank with which it …

If, on the due presentment, any check, draft, or money order accepted in payment of any tax, fee, or license, for any reason, is not honored or paid, any record of payment or redemption that may have been made on any official record because of the acceptance of such check, draft,…

Whenever a cancellation of a credited payment has been made in accordance with section 57-20-16, the officer making such cancellation shall make a record thereof in a book to be kept by the officer for that purpose. The officer shall give notice by registered or certified mail to…

Whenever the collection as evidenced by the treasurer's receipt has been entered upon the treasurer's collection register, and the books have been closed for the month, so that the treasurer cannot void the receipts issued for any check, draft, or money order received in payment …

Any owner of real property who has entered into an extension contract under the provisions of chapter 240 of the 1937 Session Laws, or under chapter 227 of the 1939 Session Laws, if such contract is in force, has the right to discharge the interest in full upon that person's obli…

Any person against whom any tax is levied, or who may be required to pay the same, may pay such tax under protest to the county treasurer, by giving notice in writing to such treasurer at the time of payment, specifying the reasons for such protest, and thereafter, within sixty d…

Whenever taxes have been paid under protest, the county treasurer shall deduct the uncontested amount of the taxes paid under protest as determined under section 57-20-20 and keep the contested amount of the money thus paid and collected in a separate fund known as "taxes paid un…

When payment is made for any real or personal property taxes or special assessments, payments must be applied first to the oldest unpaid delinquent taxes or special assessments due, if any, shown to exist upon the property for which the tax payments are made, including any penalt…

All penalties on general taxes and interest on certificates of sale issued, or deemed to be issued to the county, or tax liens against the property belong to the county and become a part of the general fund or of any other fund as the county commissioners may direct, except penal…

Each county is responsible to the state for the full amount of the taxes levied for state purposes, except such amounts or taxes as have been canceled as uncollectible, or canceled or abated, as provided by law. If any county treasurer proves to be a defaulter, to any amount, of …

Between the first and fifteenth of November of each year, the county treasurer shall mail to each owner of any lot or tract of land for which taxes are delinquent a notice giving the legal description of that lot or tract and stating that the taxes are delinquent and constitute a…

A tax lien may not be considered invalid for the reason that the real estate has been charged in any name other than that of the rightful owner.

1. If any holder of a leasehold or other possessory interest in exempt real property neglects or refuses to pay any real estate taxes legally assessed and levied on that property at the time required by law for the payment of real property taxes, the taxes shall constitute a pers…