Title 8, Carriage
13 chapters · 70 sections in this title.
N.D.C.C. § 8-10-01 Telegraph company must maintain sufficient equipment
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All persons, corporations, and companies doing a public telegraph business within the state shall maintain sufficient wires and equipment to give prompt service and dispatch.
N.D.C.C. § 8-10-02 Order of transmission and delivery of telegraph messages
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A carrier of messages by telegraph, if it is practicable, shall transmit every such message immediately upon its receipt and shall promptly deliver all messages received in any telegraph office within the state if it is in the power of the telegraph company to locate the party to…
N.D.C.C. § 8-10-03 Order of transmission of messages other than telegraph
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A common carrier of messages otherwise than by telegraph shall transmit messages in the order in which the carrier receives them, except that priority must always be given to messages on public business from agents of the United States or this state. The carrier may fix upon cert…
N.D.C.C. § 8-10-04 Damages when message is refused or delayed
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Every person whose message is refused, postponed, or delayed contrary to the provisions of sections 8-10-02 and 8-10-03 is entitled to recover from the carrier that person's actual damages and additional damages for mental distress and anguish caused by the refusal, delay, or pos…
N.D.C.C. § 8-10-05 Messages transmitted promptly
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All messages left at the office of any telegraph office must be transmitted promptly if said message is prepaid by the sender. In no case may a full-rate message remain at the telegraph office unsent more than thirty minutes except in case of accident to the lines or during sever…
N.D.C.C. § 8-10-07.2 Unlawful use of telecommunications devices - Penalty
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A person is guilty of a class A misdemeanor if the person willfully: 1. Makes or possesses any device adapted or which can be adapted to obtain telecommunications services, or to conceal from any supplier of telecommunications services the existence, place of origin, or the desti…
N.D.C.C. § 8-10-07.3 Unlawful publication of telecommunications credit card numbers or codes
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Every person who willfully publishes the number or code of an existing, canceled, revoked, expired, or nonexistent credit card, or the numbering or coding which is employed in the issuance of credit cards, with the intent that it be used or with knowledge or reason to believe tha…
N.D.C.C. § 8-10-09 Disclosing telegraph and telephone messages - Penalty
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Every person who willfully obtains any knowledge of a telegraphic or telephonic message, by connivance with a clerk, operator, messenger, or other employee of a telegraph or telephone company, and every clerk, operator, messenger, or other employee who willfully divulges to any b…
N.D.C.C. § 8-10-10 Secreting telegraphic dispatch
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Every person having in that person's possession any telegraphic dispatch addressed to another, who willfully secretes, conceals, or suppresses it, is guilty of a class A misdemeanor.
N.D.C.C. § 8-10-11 Interruption of telecommunications in kidnapping or hostage emergency - Duty of telecommunications company to assist - Prohibited communications - Penalty
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1. As used in this section, "peace officer" has the same meaning as in section 12.1-01-04. 2. A peace officer with supervisory control over an incident in which that peace officer has probable cause to believe that an individual could suffer injury or death as a result of the inc…
N.D.C.C. § 8-10-12 Exemption from liability for interruption of telephone communications
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Good-faith reliance on an order issued under section 8-10-11 is a complete defense to any legal action brought for interruption of telephone communications occurring because of section 8-10-11.