Title 57, Taxation

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…

At any time after any taxes or special assessments or any installment thereof, heretofore or hereafter levied and assessed upon any real property within this state, have been delinquent for more than twelve months, and remain due and unpaid, the county treasurer, if the said prop…

A copy of the petition prescribed by section 57-21-01, and a notice of hearing thereon, must be served upon the tenant and upon the owner of the real property in the manner provided by law for the service of a summons in district court, or, upon order of the court endorsed upon t…

After hearing, the court may issue an order directing the tenant to pay to the county treasurer all rents payable under the terms of the lease of the property, either due or to become due, and also directing the county treasurer to apply the said payments of rent to the delinquen…

A tenant, pursuant to an order made as provided in section 57-21-03, shall pay to the county treasurer all of the rent for the property described in such order, and if the owner reserves title to property as security for rent, the tenant or owner shall pay said taxes and special …

The treasurer shall give a receipt to the tenant for any rents paid pursuant to the order of the court, and the payment thereof and the receipt therefor constitutes a complete defense to a suit by any person for such rent.

The owner of any property described in a petition made as provided in section 57-21-01 has the right to appeal to the supreme court of this state from any order issued by the district court under the provisions of this chapter. Pending the final determination of such appeal, the …

The payment of the rents provided for in the order of the court has precedence over and must be paid prior to any subsequent assignment of such rents, or lien upon such rents, and no part of such rents is exempt from the payments required under this chapter. The payment of the re…

Whenever the delinquent and current taxes and special assessments, including penalty and interest, and the costs and expenses of the proceeding, have been fully satisfied out of the rents, property, and crops as provided in this chapter, the treasurer shall apply to the court for…

Whenever the payments of rents result in the payment of any year's taxes or special assessments, with penalties, interest, and costs thereto attached, the county treasurer shall issue a receipt for such year's tax or special assessment in the usual manner. In like manner, the cou…

Nothing in this chapter may be construed to prevent any taxpayer from exercising the right provided by law as to the payment of taxes or special assessments under protest.

The state's attorney, in the county where proceedings under this chapter lie, shall prepare the necessary papers in connection with the proceedings and shall appear at any hearing in said matter as counsel for the county and treasurer.

The remedy provided in this chapter is in addition to any other remedy which may be provided by law for the collection of taxes or special assessments levied and assessed against real property.

The county treasurer, during the month of January preceding the time when personal property taxes shall become delinquent, shall give to each person, firm, corporation, or limited liability company from whom such a tax is due a written notice stating the amount of the tax due, th…

On or before the first day of September in each year, the county treasurer shall make out a list of the unpaid delinquent personal property taxes, in the order in which they appear on the tax list, and, on or before the fifteenth day of September thereafter, shall notify each of …

The county auditor, upon receiving a list of the delinquent personal property taxes as required by law, shall cause the same to be entered in individual accounts by taxpayers in a record to be kept in the county auditor's office. Such record must show the names of delinquent taxp…

The county treasurer, on the fifteenth day of October, shall deliver the list of unpaid delinquent personal property taxes to the sheriff of the county, who immediately shall proceed to collect all such taxes, and if they are not paid upon demand, the sheriff shall distrain suffi…

Whenever personal property taxes are collected by distraint, the sheriff shall take the specific property distrained into possession, and immediately shall proceed to advertise the same by posting notices in three public places in the district or municipality where such property …

No personal property is exempt from distraint and sale for the payment of personal property taxes, except personal property consisting of household furniture, wearing apparel, and necessary provisions belonging to the head of a family, to the value of one hundred dollars.

If a taxpayer charged with a personal property tax has not sufficient property which the sheriff can find to distrain to pay such tax, but has moneys or credits due the taxpayer or coming to the taxpayer from any person, corporation, limited liability company, governmental agency…

Upon receiving payment of any personal property tax, the sheriff shall make four copies of a receipt therefor, which must contain the information required by section 57-22-03 to be given to the sheriff by the county treasurer and the amount of taxes and interest and penalty colle…

On the first day of each month after the sheriff receives the delinquent personal property tax list from the county treasurer, the sheriff shall make out and file with the county treasurer a statement of the personal property taxes collected by the sheriff during the preceding mo…

The sheriff, on or before January first of each year, also shall file with the county auditor a full and complete list of uncollected taxes and shall append to such list the sheriff's affidavit, or the affidavit of the sheriff's deputy, stating that the sheriff has made diligent …

At its regular meeting in January of each year, the board of county commissioners shall examine the sheriff's report on personal property taxes and compare the same with the tax lists of the auditor and treasurer, and, upon such report, may cancel such taxes as the board is satis…

The sheriff shall maintain in the sheriff's office a record of the original delinquent taxes furnished to the sheriff by the county treasurer, and it is the sheriff's duty to collect at any time any taxes remaining uncanceled, unabated, or unpaid. Upon sending the sheriff's notic…

Personal property taxes, for the purpose of distraint, are a lien upon all the personal property in possession of the person assessed from and after the date when the assessment is made.

No security interest in or other lien upon personal property is foreclosed by the sale of such property unless the secured party, the secured party's agent or attorney, or the editor or publisher of the printing concern or company which prints such foreclosure notice, at least fi…

Upon receipt of the notice of foreclosure of a security interest in or other lien upon personal property, the county treasurer shall ascertain whether the owner of such personal property has paid the taxes levied against the owner and if the county treasurer finds that such taxes…

Any person who removes from this state, or disposes of any personal property which has been assessed for personal property taxes, with intent to avoid the payment of such taxes and without paying the same, is guilty of a class A misdemeanor.

If a township, city, or county officer learns or believes that there is danger that personal property which has been assessed and upon which any personal property taxes are due or will be due, will be sold, or removed from the county, without payment of the taxes and without leav…

Any person owing personal property taxes is liable civilly to the purchaser of any property assessed therefor, but the property purchased or transferred is liable in the hands of the purchaser for such taxes if it can be shown that the property transferred was assessed individual…

If personal property has been sold or transferred under a conditional sale contract, the owner, holder, or assignee of such contract may not attach nor repossess such property nor acquire it by bill of sale, on account of the cancellation or foreclosure of such contract, until th…