North Dakota Code — 1
Browse 189 sections in division 1 of the North Dakota code. Each section page includes the full statutory text, official source links, and citation guidance.
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- § 1-01-01. This act - How referred to
- § 1-01-01.1. Adoption of North Dakota Revised Code of 1943
- § 1-01-01.2. Adoption of code not repeal of laws passed in 1944 Special Session
- § 1-01-02. Origin of law
- § 1-01-03. Expression of law
- § 1-01-04. Common law divided
- § 1-01-05. Evidence of common law
- § 1-01-06. Code excludes common law
- § 1-01-07. Classification of civil rights
- § 1-01-08. Rights of property and person - How waived
- § 1-01-09. Word defined by statute always has same meaning
- § 1-01-10. Quorum
- § 1-01-11. Authority of deputies
- § 1-01-12. Variation from prescribed form
- § 1-01-13. Numerals
- § 1-01-14. Degrees of care
- § 1-01-15. Degrees of care and diligence - Definition
- § 1-01-16. Degrees of negligence
- § 1-01-17. Degrees of negligence - Definition
- § 1-01-18. Children - Definition
- § 1-01-19. Debtor and creditor - Definition
- § 1-01-20. Valuable consideration - Definition
- § 1-01-21. Good faith - Definition
- § 1-01-22. Notice - Classification
- § 1-01-23. Actual notice - Definition
- § 1-01-24. Constructive notice - Definition
- § 1-01-25. What deemed constructive notice
- § 1-01-26. False notice cannot become valid
- § 1-01-27. Paper - Definition
- § 1-01-28. Person - Definition
- § 1-01-29. Several - Definition
- § 1-01-30. Third persons - Definition
- § 1-01-31. Usage - Definition
- § 1-01-32. Usual and customary - Definition
- § 1-01-33. Year - Month - Week - Definition - Fraction of day disregarded
- § 1-01-34. Gender - Definition
- § 1-01-35. Singular - Definition
- § 1-01-35.1. Tense
- § 1-01-36. Compound interest - Definition
- § 1-01-37. Written and printed - Definition
- § 1-01-38. Seal - Definition
- § 1-01-39. When this code governs
- § 1-01-40. Coal - Definition
- § 1-01-41. Verdict - Definition
- § 1-01-42. Verified - Definition
- § 1-01-43. State on Mountain Time until return of United States to Standard Time
- § 1-01-44. Successive weeks construed
- § 1-01-45. Corporate surety - Definition
- § 1-01-46. Decree - Definition
- § 1-01-47. Population - Definition
- § 1-01-48. Division of child welfare - Definition
- § 1-01-49. Other general definitions
- § 1-01-50. Filing or presentation of petitions - Time limit
- § 1-01-51. Qualified elector defined
- § 1-02-01. Rule of construction of code
- § 1-02-02. Words to be understood in their ordinary sense
- § 1-02-03. Language - How construed
- § 1-02-03.1. Person-first language
- § 1-02-04. Conflict in expression of numbers
- § 1-02-05. Construction of unambiguous statute
- § 1-02-06. Clerical and typographical errors
- § 1-02-06.1. Journal entry rule - Presumption of validity of legislation
- § 1-02-07. Particular controls general
- § 1-02-08. Conflicting provisions found in the same statute
- § 1-02-09. Irreconcilable statutes or constitutional amendments passed during the
- § 1-02-09.1. Multiple amendments to the same provision, one without reference to the
- § 1-02-09.2. Reconciliation of conflicting proposed amendments to the constitution
- § 1-02-10. Code not retroactive unless so declared
- § 1-02-11. Source note not part of statute
- § 1-02-12. Caption, cross-reference note, and source note
- § 1-02-13. Uniform laws interpreted to effect purpose
- § 1-02-14. Majority power
- § 1-02-15. Computation of time
- § 1-02-16. Repeal does not revive act previously repealed
- § 1-02-17. Repeal - Effect
- § 1-02-18. Pending actions or proceedings not affected by code
- § 1-02-19. Effect upon former laws - Repeals
- § 1-02-20. Severability
- § 1-02-21. Office held under provisions repealed by this code to be retained Exceptions
- § 1-02-22. Effect when office abolished
- § 1-02-23. Limitations - How reckoned
- § 1-02-24. Time for performance of act - How computed
- § 1-02-25. Continuations of existing statutes
- § 1-02-26. Effect of revision upon initiated measures
- § 1-02-27. Conflicts adjusted
- § 1-02-28. Benefit of provisions of law may be waived
- § 1-02-29. Repeal of incorporating law does not dissolve existing corporation or limited
- § 1-02-30. Vested rights protected
- § 1-02-31. Existing boundaries to remain after code takes effect
- § 1-02-32. Existing ordinances and regulations to remain in force after code takes
- § 1-02-33. Statutes which shall be deemed subsequent to code
- § 1-02-33.1. Section 1-02-33 not applicable to laws enacted in 1943 session
- § 1-02-34. Pendency and transfer of actions and proceedings
- § 1-02-35. Date of taking effect of code
- § 1-02-36. Registered or certified mail
- § 1-02-37. Citations
- § 1-02-38. Intentions in the enactment of statutes
- § 1-02-39. Aids in construction of ambiguous statutes
- § 1-02-40. Statutory references
- § 1-02-41. References to a series
- § 1-02-42. Effective dates of legislation - Rules of construction
- § 1-03-01. Holidays
- § 1-03-01.1. Closing of state offices - Christmas Eve
- § 1-03-02. When day following holiday shall be a holiday
- § 1-03-02.1. When holiday falls on a Saturday
- § 1-03-03. Sports on Memorial Day - Penalty
- § 1-03-04. Business days
- § 1-03-05. Act due on Saturday or holiday performed on next day
- § 1-03-06. Mothers' Day
- § 1-03-07. Arbor Day
- § 1-03-08. Bird Day
- § 1-03-09. Martin Luther King Day
- § 1-03-10. Workers' Memorial Day
- § 1-03-11. Gold Star Mothers' Day
- § 1-03-12. Four Chaplains Sunday
- § 1-03-13. Indigenous Peoples Day
- § 1-03-14. Vietnam Veterans' Day
- § 1-03-15. Women Veterans' Month
- § 1-03-16. Firefighters memorial weekend
- § 1-03-17. Patriots' Day
- § 1-03-18. Juneteenth
- § 01-03-19. Right-To-Life Day
- § 1-03-20. Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorder Awareness Day
- § 1-03-21. Military Appreciation Month
- § 1-03-22. Prisoner of War and Missing in Action Day
- § 1-03-23. North Dakota Constitution Day
- § 1-04-01. Execution, acknowledgment, filing, and recording legalized
- § 1-04-02. Acts of executors, administrators, deputies, officers, or attorneys in fact
- § 1-04-03. Acts of notary public and other officers legalized
- § 1-04-04. Good faith presumed
- § 1-04-05. Prior instruments legalized
- § 1-04-06. Instruments affecting real or personal property by representative legalized
- § 1-04-07. Assignment of mortgage by foreign executor, administrator, or guardian
- § 1-04-08. Deed to real property by receiver of foreign corporation
- § 1-04-09. Curing defects in title to real property
- § 1-04-10. Deeds, judgments, decrees, mortgage foreclosures, and other transfers
- § 1-04-11. Issuance of sheriff's deed pursuant to decree of court
- § 1-04-12. Separate deeds of husband and wife to same property legalized
- § 1-04-13. Validating deed or mortgage
- § 1-04-14. Validation of mineral reservations and deeds
- § 1-04-15. Validation of oil and gas leases adopted by board of county commissioners
- § 1-04-16. Validation of oil and gas leases made by executor, administrator, or guardian
- § 1-04-17. Validation of oil and gas leases adopted by governing body of township, city,
- § 1-04-18. Validating certain mineral deeds
- § 1-04-19. Validation of conveyances made under decree of specific performance
- § 1-04-20. Validating transfers in joint tenancy
- § 1-04-21. Validation of acknowledgments heretofore taken
- § 1-04-22. Validating deed or mortgage
- § 1-05-01. Delayed recording - Sheriff's certificate of sale validates
- § 1-05-02. Validation of powers of attorney
- § 1-05-03. Validation of foreclosure - Assignment unrecorded
- § 1-05-04. Validation of foreclosure of mortgage by foreign executor, administrator, or
- § 1-05-05. Validating foreclosure when proceedings defective
- § 1-05-06. Action to set aside mortgage foreclosure - Time limitation
- § 1-05-07. Validation of foreclosure sale without notice of intention
- § 1-06-01. Validating certain city elections
- § 1-06-02. Validation of acts of board of county commissioners and state highway
- § 1-06-03. Validation of acts of state water commission
- § 1-06-04. Validating organization and acts of irrigation districts
- § 1-06-05. Municipal transfers validated
- § 1-06-06. Improvement district proceedings validated
- § 1-06-07. Validation of documents executed with facsimile signatures
- § 1-07-01. Definitions
- § 1-07-02. Validation of bonds issued in financing project under federal emergency
- § 1-07-03. Validation of proceedings in financing project under federal emergency
- § 1-07-04. Procedure on public securities of municipalities validated
- § 1-07-05. Validation of elections on bond issues for municipal sewer and water
- § 1-07-06. Validating sales of lands for special assessments made prior to March 17,
- § 1-07-07. Validating proceedings by county funding and refunding indebtedness
- § 1-07-08. Validation of acts of municipal officers
- § 1-07-09. Validation of bonds and warrants of municipality for electric plant
- § 1-07-10. Validating county poor relief warrants and levies
- § 1-07-11. Limitations on validation of poor relief warrants and levies
- § 1-07-12. Validation of tax levies for payment of poor relief warrants
- § 1-07-13. Validating refunding special assessment warrants
- § 1-07-14. Previous validating acts not repealed
- § 1-08-01. Validating legal publications
- § 1-08-02. Authority for devises, bequests, legacies, and gifts to state institutions
- § 1-08-03. Validating devises, bequests, legacies, and gifts to state institutions
- § 1-08-04. Authorizing state and counties, cities, and other municipalities to accept
- § 1-08-04.1. State property having historical or artistic significance - Responsibilities of
- § 1-08-05. Validating proceedings of a corporation by two-thirds vote
- § 1-08-06. Validation of certain sales
- § 1-08-07. Validation of flood irrigation proceedings
- § 1-08-08. Validation of land titles acquired by corporations before March 7, 1935
- § 1-08-09. Service of civil process within boundary of an open polling place
- § 1-08-10. Acceptance by North Dakota of cession of property by Minnesota
- § 1-08-11. Acceptance by North Dakota of cession of property by Minnesota
- § 1-08-12. Alternative methods of signing, subscribing, or verifying documents filed by