Title 46 — Printing Laws

During the biennium immediately after publication, the legislative council shall sell copies of the session laws for the cost of publication and handling plus ten percent. In subsequent bienniums, the legislative council may determine and set a price for the copies of the session…

The legislative council may dispose of all volumes of the laws that are ten or more years old, except one volume of each, which must be retained for historical purposes.

Repealed by S.L. 1971, ch. 512, § 2.

Repealed by S.L. 2003, ch. 392, § 5.

To effect uniformity, the office of management and budget may compute a standard price on those legal notices which are widely published such as ballots, insurance statements, and official proclamations. All newspapers must use the rates, type size, and column width as shown on i…

Any person, association, corporation, or limited liability company publishing any legal notice or doing any public printing contrary to the provisions of this chapter shall be liable to a fine of not less than twenty-five dollars nor more than two hundred dollars and to a forfeit…

In any county in which two or more newspapers having the qualifications prescribed in section 46-05-01 are published, the board of county commissioners, by resolution, may provide for publication of proceedings of the board of county commissioners and of notices and publications …

Repealed by S.L. 1975, ch. 420, § 1.

1. When a legal notice is required by law to be published in a newspaper, the newspaper also shall publish the notice on a statewide legal notices website maintained by the North Dakota newspaper association and on the newspaper's website in a location open and free to the public…

At the general election starting with the year 1978 and every four years thereafter, in accordance with section 46-06-06, the qualified electors in each county shall select one newspaper in the county, or if there is no newspaper published in the county, then a newspaper publishe…

A newspaper is qualified to serve as an official newspaper if it meets all the requirements of a legal newspaper set forth in section 46-05-01 and maintains its principal editorial office within the county in which it is a candidate for official newspaper. In a county in which no…

The county auditor shall place the name of a newspaper upon the primary election ballot if the newspaper is qualified to serve as the official newspaper within the county and if, before four p.m. of the sixty-fourth day prior to the primary election, an application asking that th…

The county auditor shall place the names of all newspapers to be voted upon for nomination as official newspaper of the county at the bottom of the ballot upon which appear the names of the candidates for county offices. The names of the newspapers must be rotated as is required …

The newspaper receiving the highest number of votes at the general election must be declared elected. The county auditor, upon the canvass and return of the vote by the county canvassing board, shall issue a certificate of election to such newspaper, and it shall become the offic…

Repealed by S.L. 1987, ch. 551, § 1.

If a newspaper elected as the official newspaper suspends publication or ceases to possess the qualifications prescribed in section 46-06-02, a vacancy must be deemed to exist. The board of county commissioners at once shall designate another newspaper having the required qualifi…

There must be published in the official newspaper: 1. All official proceedings of the board of county commissioners of the county in which it is elected. 2. All notices and publications which are required by law to be published by any county officer. 3. All publications of every …

A legal publication of any kind or character described in section 46-06-09 which is not published in the duly elected official newspaper is null and void.

1. "Electronic" means relating to technology having electrical, digital, magnetic, wireless, optical, electromagnetic, or similar capabilities. 2. "Legal material" means, whether or not in effect: a. The Constitution of North Dakota. b. The North Dakota Century Code. c. The North…

This chapter applies to all legal material in an electronic record that is designated as official under section 46-03.1-03 and published electronically after July 31, 2013.

1. If an official publisher publishes legal material only in an electronic record, the publisher shall: a. Designate the electronic record as official; and b. Comply with sections 46-03.1-04, 46-03.1-06, and 46-03.1-07. 2. An official publisher that publishes legal material in an…

An official publisher of legal material in an electronic record that is designated as official under section 46-03.1-03 shall authenticate the record. To authenticate an electronic record, the publisher shall provide a method for a user to determine that the record received by th…

1. Legal material in an electronic record that is authenticated under section 46-03.1-04 is presumed to be an accurate copy of the legal material. 2. If another state has adopted a law substantially similar to this chapter, legal material in an electronic record that is designate…

1. An official publisher of legal material in an electronic record that is or was designated as official under section 46-03.1-04 shall provide for the preservation and security of the record in an electronic form or a form that is not electronic. 2. If legal material is preserve…

An official publisher of legal material in an electronic record that is required to be preserved under section 46-03.1-06 shall ensure that the material is reasonably available for use by the public on a permanent basis.

In implementing this chapter, an official publisher of legal material in an electronic record shall consider: 1. Standards and practices of other jurisdictions; 2. The most recent standards regarding authentication of, preservation and security of, and public access to, legal mat…

In applying and construing this chapter, consideration must be given to the need to promote uniformity of the law with respect to its subject matter among states that enact it.

This chapter modifies, limits, and supersedes the Electronic Signatures in Global and National Commerce Act [15 U.S.C. 7001 et seq.] but does not modify, limit, or supersede section 101(c) of that Act [15 U.S.C. 7001(c)] or authorize electronic delivery of any of the notices desc…