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North Dakota Statutes, Title 40

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Title 40, Municipal Government

85 chapters · 1,001 sections in this title.

All chapters in Title 401,001 Ch 40-48, Municipal Master Plans and Planning …39 Ch 40-22, Improvements by Special Assessment M…33 Ch 40-33, Municipal Utilities30 Ch 40-46, Employees' Pensions in Cities28 Ch 40-08, Governing Body and Executive Officer…27 Ch 40-23, Assessment of Benefits27 Ch 40-45, Police Pensions in Cities27 Ch 40-01, General Provisions26 Ch 40-05, Powers of Municipalities26 Ch 40-18.1, Municipal Courts26 Ch 40-49, Parks and Park Districts25 Ch 40-24, Special Assessment Funds and Disburs…23 Ch 40-58, Urban Renewal Law21 Ch 40-34, Sewage and Garbage Disposal20

1,001 sections·Filtered byTitle 40✕

N.D.C.C. § 40-16-14 Auditor not to commingle city's money - Violation forfeits office
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The city auditor shall keep the city's money separate from other moneys, and shall not, either directly or indirectly, use the city's money, warrants, or other obligations in the auditor's custody and keep it for the auditor's own use and benefit or for that of any other person o…
N.D.C.C. § 40-16-15 Assume the duties of the city treasurer
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The city auditor shall assume all functions and duties of the city treasurer when indicated in other chapters of the code.
N.D.C.C. § 40-16-16 Delegation of powers and duties
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The city council or city commission may delegate any functions and duties of the city auditor to an officer appointed under section 40-14-04 or 40-15-05.
N.D.C.C. § 40-19-01 Duties of city assessor
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The city assessor within the city shall perform all the duties necessary in assessing the property within the city for the purpose of levying the municipal, county, school, and state taxes. Such assessors shall be governed by and shall make assessments and returns as is provided …

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N.D.C.C. § 40-19-03 Return of assessment roll by city assessor

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When the assessment is completed, and on or before the first day of April in each year, the city assessor shall return the assessment roll to the city auditor. The assessment roll shall be open to the inspection of the public until the meeting of the board of equalization of the …

N.D.C.C. § 40-20-01 City attorney - Duties - Docket

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The city attorney shall: 1. Conduct all law business in which the city or any of its departments is interested. 2. Furnish written opinions, when requested, upon all questions submitted to the city attorney by the governing body or any of the departments of the city. 3. Draft all…

N.D.C.C. § 40-20-02 Assistant city attorneys - Appointment - Special counsel authorized

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With the consent and approval of the governing body of the city, the city attorney may appoint assistants to do any or all of the acts which the city attorney is required to do under this chapter, but the city attorney shall be responsible to the city for the acts of such assista…

N.D.C.C. § 40-20-03 City engineer - Qualifications - Duties - Compensation - Plans or surveys - Preservation and transfer to successor

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The city engineer must be a practical surveyor and engineer. The city engineer shall keep an office in some convenient place in the city and the governing body, by ordinance, shall prescribe the city engineer's duties and compensation for services performed for the city. All surv…

N.D.C.C. § 40-20-04 When city engineer or chief of police to be street commissioner

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In cities having no street commissioner, the city engineer shall perform the duties and have the authority of street commissioner, and in cities having no street commissioner or city engineer, the chief of police shall perform the duties and have the authority of street commissio…

N.D.C.C. § 40-20-05 Chief of police and police officers - Powers and duties - Hot pursuit

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1. The chief of police shall perform duties prescribed by the governing body for the preservation of the peace. The chief of police may administer oaths to police officers under the chief's supervision. Within the city limits, and for a distance of one and one-half miles [2.41 ki…

N.D.C.C. § 40-20-06 Arrest by chief of police or policeman outside of city - Fees

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No chief of police or policeman shall receive any fee for going outside of the city to make an arrest for violation of a state law unless the board of county commissioners is satisfied that a delay in obtaining the sheriff or a sheriff's deputy to make the arrest would have permi…

N.D.C.C. § 40-20-07 Municipalities to furnish blue uniforms to police officers

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Any municipality of this state which employs full-time police officers shall furnish each such police officer with a summer-weight and a winter-weight uniform. The uniforms must be blue in color.

N.D.C.C. § 40-21-01 Qualified electors in municipal election - Restrictions

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Every resident of a municipality who is qualified to vote therein at general elections may vote at all municipal elections held therein. When elections are held by wards or precincts, a person may not vote in any place other than the ward or precinct of which the person is a resi…

N.D.C.C. § 40-21-02 City elections - When held - Notice - Polls - Agreements with counties - Judges and inspectors

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Biennial municipal elections must be held on the second Tuesday in June in each even-numbered year. 1. Thirty days before the filing deadline for candidate names to be printed on the ballot, an official notice of this deadline along with a list of the offices to appear on the bal…

N.D.C.C. § 40-21-03.1 Designation of polling places for municipal elections

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The governing body of any city at the time of calling any general or special municipal election, or prior to the time of registration for said election, if such registration is required by law, when officers of said city are not to be elected by wards or districts, may by resolut…

N.D.C.C. § 40-21-05 Compensation of inspectors, judges, and clerks at municipal elections

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Each inspector, judge, or clerk of any regular or special municipal election shall receive compensation as determined for election officials in section 16.1-05-05. The amounts determined to be due election officials at municipal elections shall be paid from the funds of the munic…

N.D.C.C. § 40-21-06 Reference to party ballot or affiliation in petition of candidate for municipal office prohibited

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No reference may be made to a party ballot nor to the party affiliation of a candidate in a petition to be filed by or in behalf of a candidate for nomination to a public office in any incorporated city in this state.

N.D.C.C. § 40-21-07 Petition for nomination of elective official in cities - Signatures required - Withdrawal of petition - Contents

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A candidate for any public office in an incorporated city may be nominated by filing with the city auditor, before four p.m. on the sixty-fourth day before the holding of the election, a petition signed by not less than ten percent of the number of qualified electors who voted fo…

N.D.C.C. § 40-21-08 Ballots in municipalities - Arrangement

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The auditor of the city shall place only the names of the persons nominated upon the ballot. The auditor shall arrange the offices upon the ballot in the order in which they are named in the statutes. The auditor shall determine the arrangement of the names of the candidates upon…

N.D.C.C. § 40-21-09 Election districts in council cities - Division and consolidation by ordinance - Ballots to be kept separate by wards

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Each city operating under the council form of government in which council members are elected at large constitutes an election district or voting precinct, and in all other cities each ward constitutes an election district or voting precinct. Whenever the number of electors in an…

N.D.C.C. § 40-21-11 Clerks appointed to fill vacancies - Oath, powers, and duties of judges and clerks of municipal elections

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When necessary, the judges of election at a municipal election shall appoint clerks to fill vacancies. The judges and clerks of a municipal election shall take the same oath and have the same powers and authority as judges and clerks of general state elections.

N.D.C.C. § 40-21-13 Municipal elections to be governed by rules applicable to county elections - Absent voting

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The manner of conducting, voting at, keeping poll lists, and canvassing votes at municipal elections, recounts, and contests of the results of the elections is governed, as nearly as possible and except as otherwise provided in this chapter, by the laws of this state applicable t…

N.D.C.C. § 40-21-14 City auditor to notify of election or appointments

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The city auditor, within five days after the result of an election is declared or the appointment of an officer is made within the municipality, shall notify each person elected or appointed to municipal office of that person's election or appointment. Within the same period of t…

N.D.C.C. § 40-21-15 New election upon failure to elect

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If there is a failure to elect an officer required to be elected, the governing body of the municipality may order a new election.

N.D.C.C. § 40-21-16 Special elections conducted in same manner as general elections

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Special municipal elections to fill vacancies or for any other purpose must be held and conducted by the inspectors and judges of election of the several polling places in the same manner and the returns must be made in the same form and manner as at regular municipal elections.

N.D.C.C. § 40-21-16.1 City canvassing board - Composition

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For any city election not held in conjunction with a county election, the city canvassing board must be composed of the city auditor, city attorney, mayor or commission president, and two members of the city commission or council, or appointed replacements for any of these offici…

N.D.C.C. § 40-21-17 Highest number of votes elects in municipal election - Procedure on tie vote

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The person having the highest number of votes for any municipal office shall be declared elected to such office. In case of a tie vote in the election of any municipal officer, a recount must be conducted pursuant to section 16.1-16-01. If a recount results in a tie vote, the cho…

N.D.C.C. § 40-22-01 Power of municipalities to defray expense of improvements by special assessments

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Any municipality, upon complying with the provisions of this chapter, may defray the expense of any or all of the following types of improvements by special assessments: 1. The construction of a water supply system, or a sewerage system, or both, or any part thereof, or any impro…

N.D.C.C. § 40-22-01.1 Restoration of property damaged in flood control or during a declared disaster or emergency - Special assessments for costs

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When any city has constructed any temporary emergency flood control protection devices or works to protect property located within a portion of a city from flood damage or expended funds for the protection of the city from flood or other peril under chapter 37-17.1 or otherwise, …

N.D.C.C. § 40-22-01.2 Municipal policy providing special assessment determination methods for allocation of assessments among and within classes of property

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Within five months of this section becoming applicable to a city, the governing body of each city with a population exceeding ten thousand shall adopt written policies, after a public hearing for consideration of the policies, which will be applied for cost allocation among prope…

N.D.C.C. § 40-22-01.3 Power of municipality to defray expense of improvements - Infrastructure fee

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1. Notwithstanding section 40-22-01, a municipality may levy and collect an infrastructure fee. The fee must replace a general special assessment on all property for payment of infrastructure maintenance costs through a utility bill issued by a municipality. The money collected u…

N.D.C.C. § 40-22-02 Sewerage system - Establishment, maintenance, and alteration - Vote required

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The governing body of any municipality may establish, maintain, and alter a general system of sewerage for the municipality in such manner and under such regulations as it shall deem expedient and proper. No action shall be taken for the establishment of a sewerage system except …

N.D.C.C. § 40-22-03 Acquiring property for sewers, water mains, and water supply beyond corporate limits

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When it is necessary to conduct the sewage of a municipality beyond the municipal limits or to acquire a supply of water beyond such limits and to construct mains or aqueducts to conduct such water to the municipal limits, the governing body, by grant, purchase, or condemnation p…

N.D.C.C. § 40-22-05 Condemnation of land and rights of way for special improvements - Taking of possession - Trial - Appeal - Vacation of judgment

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Whenever property required to make any improvement authorized by this chapter is to be taken by condemnation proceedings, the court, upon request by resolution of the governing body of the municipality making such improvement, shall call a special term of court for the trial of t…

N.D.C.C. § 40-22-06 Agreement with state agency, county, water resource district, or federal agency for certain improvements

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Any municipality in this state, through its governing body, may enter into an agreement with any state agency, the board of county commissioners, or water resource board of the county in which the municipality is located, or a joint water resource board which jurisdiction include…

N.D.C.C. § 40-22-08 Improvement districts to be created

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For the purpose of making an improvement project of one of the types specified in section 40-22-01 and defraying the cost thereof by special assessments, a municipality may create water districts, sewer districts, water and sewer districts, street improvement districts, boulevard…

N.D.C.C. § 40-22-09 Size and form of improvement districts - Regulations governing

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Any improvement district created by a municipality may embrace two or more separate property areas. Each improvement district shall be of such size and form as to include all properties which in the judgment of the governing body, after consultation with the engineer planning the…

N.D.C.C. § 40-22-10 Engineer's report required - Contents

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1. After a special improvement district has been created, the governing body of a municipality, if the governing body deems it necessary to make any of the improvements set out in section 40-22-01 in the manner provided in this chapter, shall direct the engineer for the municipal…

N.D.C.C. § 40-22-11 Approval of plans, specifications, and estimates - Approval establishes grade of street

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At any time after receiving the engineer's report required by section 40-22-10, the governing body may direct the engineer to prepare detailed plans and specifications for construction of the improvement. The plans and specifications shall be approved by a resolution of the gover…

N.D.C.C. § 40-22-12 Requirements of plans, specifications, and estimates when improvement is paving or beautification of streets

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If an improvement to be financed by special assessments consists in paving or repaving any street, alley, or public place, the governing body of the municipality may require the plans, specifications, and estimates for the improvement to be made for one kind of pavement or severa…

N.D.C.C. § 40-22-13 Municipal engineer to retain copy of plans, specifications, and estimates - Sale of copies

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The engineer acting for the municipality shall retain a copy of the plans, specifications, and estimates which have been prepared for any improvement on file in the engineer's office. The engineer shall furnish to any person applying therefor copies of the same, and, if the engin…

N.D.C.C. § 40-22-14 Plans, specifications, and estimates filed in office of city auditor

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The plans, specifications, and estimates shall be the property of the municipality and shall be filed in the office of the city auditor and shall remain on file in the city auditor's office subject to inspection by any interested person.

N.D.C.C. § 40-22-15 Resolution declaring improvements necessary - Exception for sewer and water improvements - Contents of resolution - Publication of resolution

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After the engineer's report required by section 40-22-10 has been filed and approved, the governing body of the municipality, by resolution, shall declare that it is necessary to make the improvements described therein. However, a resolution is not required if the improvement con…

N.D.C.C. § 40-22-16 Sewer or water improvements and parking lots in municipalities may be paid for by service charges

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A municipality constructing a sewer or water improvement or a parking lot under the special assessment method may resolve in the resolution or ordinance required by section 40-22-08 in the case of a sewer or water improvement, or in the resolution required by section 40-22-15 in …

N.D.C.C. § 40-22-17 Protest against resolution of necessity - Meeting to hear protest

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If, within thirty days after the first publication of the resolution declaring the necessity of an improvement project of the type specified in any one of the subsections of section 40-22-01, the owners of any property within the improvement district file written protests describ…

N.D.C.C. § 40-22-18 Protest bar to proceeding - Invalid or insufficient protests - Payment of costs - Tax levy

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If the governing body finds the protests to contain the names of the owners of a majority of the area of the property included within the improvement district, the protests shall be a bar against proceeding with any special assessment for the improvement project. However, the pro…

N.D.C.C. § 40-22-19 Contract proposals

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Proposals for the work of making improvements provided for in this chapter must be advertised for by the governing body in the official newspaper of the municipality once each week for two consecutive weeks. All other provisions for proposals under this chapter are governed by ch…

N.D.C.C. § 40-22-26 Petition by property owners to have paving of certain material - Contents

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If the governing body has called for bids on more than one kind of pavement, after the opening of the bids in connection with an improvement consisting of paving or repaving and before the meeting of the governing body to consider the same, the owners of a majority of the propert…

N.D.C.C. § 40-22-28 Determination of kind of paving after bids are considered

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If the contemplated improvement consists of paving or repaving, the governing body, after it has opened and considered the bids, shall determine by resolution the kind or kinds of pavement to be laid, and thereafter may proceed to award the necessary contract or contracts.

N.D.C.C. § 40-22-29 Engineer's statement of estimated cost required - Governing body to enter into contracts

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Before adopting or rejecting any bid filed under the provisions of this chapter, the governing body shall require the engineer for the municipality to make a careful and detailed statement of the estimated cost of the work for which proposals were advertised under section 40-22-1…