Title 8, Carriage
13 chapters · 70 sections in this title.
N.D.C.C. § 8-09-02 When exceptions do not apply
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A common carrier is liable even in the cases excepted by section 8-09-01 if the common carrier's negligence exposes the property to the cause of the loss.
N.D.C.C. § 8-09-03 Liability for delay
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A common carrier is liable for delay only when it is caused by the common carrier's want of ordinary care and diligence.
N.D.C.C. § 8-09-04 Valuables must be declared
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A common carrier of gold, silver, platinum, or precious stones, or of imitations thereof, in a manufactured or unmanufactured state, of timepieces of any description, of negotiable paper or other valuable writings, or of pictures, glass, or chinaware, is not liable for more than …
N.D.C.C. § 8-09-05 Delivery of freight beyond usual route - Carrier exonerated
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If a common carrier accepts freight for a place beyond the common carrier's usual route, the common carrier, unless the common carrier stipulates otherwise, shall deliver it at the end of the common carrier's route in that direction to some other competent carrier carrying to the…
N.D.C.C. § 8-09-06 Must prove delivery to connecting carriers
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If freight addressed to a place beyond the usual route of the common carrier who first received it is lost or injured, the common carrier, within a reasonable time after demand for proof that the loss did not occur while the goods were under the common carrier's control, shall gi…
N.D.C.C. § 8-09-07 Services other than carriage and delivery
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In respect to any service rendered by a common carrier about freight, other than its carriage and delivery, the common carrier's rights and obligations are defined by titles 34 and 60.
N.D.C.C. § 8-09-08 Carriers cannot limit common-law liability
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Whenever any property is received by any common carrier to be transported from one place to another within this state, it is unlawful for the carrier to limit in any way, except as stated in the common carrier's classification schedule, the common carrier's common-law liability w…
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.
N.D.C.C. § 8-12-01 Definitions
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As used in the chapter: 1. "Autonomous vehicle" means a vehicle equipped with an automated driving system. 2. "Client" means a person requesting service from an on-demand autonomous vehicle network. The term includes a passenger, a shipper, as defined by section 41-07-02, a perso…
N.D.C.C. § 8-12-02 General provisions
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1. Notwithstanding any other provision of law, a person may operate an on-demand autonomous vehicle network. An on-demand autonomous vehicle network may provide transportation of persons or goods, including: a. For-hire transportation; b. Public transportation; and c. Transportat…