North Dakota Code — 18
Browse 203 sections in division 18 of the North Dakota code. Each section page includes the full statutory text, official source links, and citation guidance.
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- § 18-01-01. Appointment of state fire marshal - Appointment and salaries of deputies
- § 18-01-02. Duties of state fire marshal and deputy state fire marshals
- § 18-01-03. Deputy state fire marshal to assist state fire marshal - Duties when state fire
- § 18-01-03.1. Inspections - Department of health and human services - Education
- § 18-01-03.2. Delegation of authority
- § 18-01-04. Rules for prevention of fires to be issued
- § 18-01-04.1. Educational programs - Provided by state fire marshal
- § 18-01-05. Insurance companies to report fire losses to state fire marshal
- § 18-01-05.1. Disclosure of information - Immunity - Confidentiality
- § 18-01-06. Fire chiefs and auditors or secretaries of cities and rural fire protection
- § 18-01-07. State fire marshal may direct investigation - Report of investigation Records in state fire marshal's office
- § 18-01-08. Compensation of fire chiefs and executive officers of municipalities for
- § 18-01-09. Investigation by state fire marshal - Complaint to bureau of criminal
- § 18-01-10. State fire marshal and deputies may subpoena witnesses and records Witness fees - Oaths - Certificates
- § 18-01-11. Refusal of witness at state fire marshal's investigation to testify, produce
- § 18-01-12. Testifying falsely at investigation of state fire marshal is perjury
- § 18-01-13. Interfering with state fire marshal or deputies - Penalty
- § 18-01-14. Abatement of fire hazards
- § 18-01-15. Abatement of conditions dangerous to persons - Order - Failure to comply Penalty
- § 18-01-16. Order of abatement - To whom directed - Contents - How served - Service
- § 18-01-17. Appeal to state fire marshal from abatement order - Record made by state
- § 18-01-18. Appeal from abatement order of state fire marshal
- § 18-01-19. Noncompliance with order of abatement - Court proceeding - Title
- § 18-01-20. Service of order and notice - Contents of notice - Additional parties - Duty
- § 18-01-21. Service of abatement order and notice by publication - Affidavit - Order
- § 18-01-22. Appearance in court proceeding by parties in interest
- § 18-01-23. Time of hearing in district court - Notice to parties who have appeared
- § 18-01-24. Hearing in district court
- § 18-01-25. Conclusiveness of abatement order or of judgment on appeal therefrom
- § 18-01-16. If an appeal was taken from such order, the judgment of the court on appeal is
- § 18-01-26. Judgment of district court and contents
- § 18-01-27. Costs and disbursements - Enforcing order - Lien of costs - Payment of
- § 18-01-28. Records in state fire marshal department open to inspection - Exception
- § 18-01-29. Biennial report
- § 18-01-30. State's attorneys to assist state fire marshal
- § 18-01-31. Compensation of officers performing services for state fire marshal
- § 18-01-32. Violation of duty by officers - Penalty
- § 18-01-33. State fire marshal may adopt rules for explosives - Penalty
- § 18-01-34. Disclosure of information concerning toxic or hazardous substances - List
- § 18-01-35. Fire and tornado fund fees
- § 18-01-36. Petroleum release compensation fund fees
- § 18-02-01. Forest fire wardens in organized township
- § 18-02-02. Forest fire wardens in unorganized township
- § 18-02-03. Powers and duties of forest fire wardens
- § 18-02-04. Compensation
- § 18-02-05. Authority of state forester
- § 18-02-06. Forest fires defined
- § 18-02-07. Cooperation of state forester and other agencies - Fire and forest
- § 18-02-08. Designation of forest protection districts
- § 18-02-09. Powers of rangers, wardens, and deputies
- § 18-03-01. North Dakota firefighter's association - How constituted
- § 18-03-01.1. North Dakota firefighter's association - Duties and authority
- § 18-03-02. Fire schools
- § 18-03-03. Association to report to office of management and budget time and place of
- § 18-03-04. Association to furnish bond
- § 18-03-05. Statement of desired appropriation submitted to state fire marshal
- § 18-03-06. Director of the budget to prepare estimate for firefighter's association
- § 18-03-07. Insurance commissioner to pay sum appropriated to association
- § 18-03-08. Report of use of money
- § 18-03-09. Volunteer firemen exempt from poll tax - Duty of secretary of department
- § 18-04-01. Eligibility for participation in fund created from premium tax on fire
- § 18-04-02. City auditor or secretary of rural fire department to file certificate with state
- § 18-04-03. Failure to file certificate deemed waiver - Exception
- § 18-04-04. Insurance companies to report fire, allied lines, homeowner's multiple peril,
- § 18-04-04.1. Insurance tax distribution fund
- § 18-04-05. Amount due cities, rural fire protection districts, or rural fire departments Transfer to firefighters death benefit fund - Disbursement to North Dakota firefighter's
- § 18-04-06. Office of management and budget to issue warrants on state treasurer for
- § 18-04-07. Disbursement of fund by city auditor
- § 18-04-08. Notification of municipalities entitled to benefits
- § 18-05-01. Firefighters relief association - Where it may be organized
- § 18-05-02. Control of funds - Derivation of funds
- § 18-05-03. Treasurer of relief association to furnish bond
- § 18-05-04. Apportioning insurance tax received by city, rural fire department, or rural
- § 18-05-05. Disbursement of money received by treasurer of firefighters relief
- § 18-05-06. Service pension - Who may receive - Recipient entitled to no further relief
- § 18-05-07. Eligibility for service pension may be acquired by paying back
- § 18-05-08. Pensions to be uniform - Reduction or increase in pensions authorized
- § 18-05-09. Who deemed firefighter
- § 18-05-10. Qualifications as to age inapplicable to pension for disability
- § 18-05-11. Money received under pension not subject to legal process - Assignments
- § 18-05-12. Secretary and treasurer of firefighters relief association to prepare report Contents - Filing
- § 18-05-13. Audit of books of relief association - Report of unauthorized spending to
- § 54-10-14. If the money, or any part of it, has been or is being expended for unauthorized
- § 18-06-01. Township may purchase fire equipment - Election
- § 18-06-02. Notice of election
- § 18-06-03. Equipment must be purchased on competitive bids - Paid for out of general
- § 18-06-04. Two or more townships may purchase fire equipment jointly
- § 18-06-05. Equipment purchased jointly - Each board of supervisors to authorize clerk
- § 18-06-06. Petition for tax levy for fire protection in unincorporated villages - Tax levy
- § 18-06-07. Certification of amount of taxes levied - County auditor to fix rate Extension
- § 18-06-08. Collection and payment of taxes - Separate account kept by township
- § 18-06-09. Expenditures from funds - Payments made by warrants
- § 18-06-10. Township may contract for prevention and extinguishment of fires
- § 18-06-11. Contracts for fire protection in unorganized townships - Mill levy
- § 18-07-01. Petition to board of county commissioners to establish firebreaks - Tax
- § 18-07-02. Board of county commissioners to divide county into fire districts
- § 18-07-03. Board of county commissioners to appoint fire wardens - Compensation Oath - Bond
- § 18-07-04. Fire warden to make firebreaks - When made
- § 18-07-05. Legal firebreak defined
- § 18-07-06. When prairie may be set on fire to make firebreak
- § 18-07-07. Board of county commissioners may provide tools to make firebreak
- § 18-08-01. Penalty for setting prairie fire
- § 18-08-02. Burning grass or stubble
- § 18-08-03. Liability when lawfully set fire is permitted to spread
- § 18-08-04. Accidental damage from lawfully set fire - Liability
- § 18-08-05. Setting fire to destroy grasshoppers lawful
- § 18-08-06. Liability for unlawfully setting fire to destroy grasshoppers - Penalty for
- § 18-08-07. Penalty for failure to extinguish camp or other fire
- § 18-08-08. Occupant may recover damages caused by fire
- § 18-08-09. Misconduct at fires - Penalty
- § 18-08-10. Prohibiting sale, distribution, and possession of fire extinguishers
- § 18-08-11. Penalty
- § 18-08-12. Periodic fire inspection of state buildings and institutions
- § 18-09-01. Liquefied petroleum gas defined
- § 18-09-02. State fire marshal to make rules
- § 18-09-02.1. Liquefied petroleum gas furnace or other appliance permitted in
- § 18-09-03. Penalty
- § 18-09-04. Abatement
- § 18-10-01. Petition for establishment
- § 18-10-02. Petition - Hearing - Order
- § 18-10-03. Notice of hearing
- § 18-10-04. Organization - Board of directors
- § 18-10-05. Regular meeting to be held
- § 18-10-06. Powers of board of directors
- § 18-10-06.1. Development of firebreaks
- § 18-10-07. Fire protection policy to be determined - Financial report - Tax levy limit Vote-approved levy authority
- § 18-10-08. Indebtedness of district limited
- § 18-10-09. Funds collected to be deposited
- § 18-10-10. Rural fire department may enter into contract - Power of state and local
- § 18-10-11. Territory to be annexed
- § 18-10-12. Boundaries of rural fire protection district
- § 18-10-12.1. Withdrawal from rural fire protection district
- § 18-10-13. County auditor to set date for hearing
- § 18-10-14. Rate of tax fixed
- § 18-10-15. Payments by certain organizations
- § 18-10-16. State fire marshal to establish rural routing systems
- § 18-10-17. Rural fire protection district - Civil immunity
- § 18-11-01. Alternate firefighters relief association plan
- § 18-11-02. Operation of association
- § 18-11-03. Firefighter defined
- § 18-11-04. Accrued rights not destroyed by plan - Transfer of funds - Records
- § 18-11-05. Application for membership
- § 18-11-06. Association may deny membership to mentally, physically unsound
- § 18-11-07. Officers
- § 18-11-08. Report of receipts and expenditures regarding state funds to be filed with
- § 18-11-09. Apportioning insurance tax
- § 18-11-10. Additional city firefighters relief fund contributions
- § 18-11-11. Levy proceeds
- § 18-11-12. Contribution by firefighters
- § 18-11-13. Association state fund - Expenditures - Investment
- § 18-11-14. Disbursement of moneys from association state fund
- § 18-11-15. Service pensions - Qualifications
- § 18-11-15.1. Purchase of legislative service credit
- § 18-11-16. Disability pensions - Qualifications
- § 18-11-17. Pensions to surviving spouses and children of deceased members
- § 18-11-18. Reduction in benefits if funds not sufficient
- § 18-11-19. Fund based upon actuarial tables - Treatment of forfeitures
- § 18-11-20. Members withdrawing from association - Members in military service
- § 18-11-21. Money received under pension not subject to legal process - Assignments
- § 18-11-22. Examination of relief association records - Report of unauthorized spending
- § 54-10-14. If the audit report discloses that the money, or any part of it, has been or is being
- § 18-11-23. Funeral benefits
- § 18-11-24. Commencement of benefits
- § 18-11-25. Vesting on plan termination
- § 18-11-26. Service pensions - Formulation of optional plan
- § 18-11-27. Optional plan postretirement adjustments
- § 18-11-28. Service, disability, and survivor pensions - Formulation of optional plan
- § 18-12-01. Application
- § 18-12-02. Definitions
- § 18-12-03. Plans and specifications
- § 18-12-04. Employment of registered architects and engineers
- § 18-12-05. State fire marshal
- § 18-12-06. Construction requirements
- § 18-12-07. Shops and industrial arts
- § 18-12-08. Auditorium stage area protection
- § 18-12-09. Corridors
- § 18-12-10. Exits
- § 18-12-11. Stairways
- § 18-12-12. Interior finish
- § 18-12-13. Fire extinguishers
- § 18-12-14. Storage rooms - Ordinary combustibles
- § 18-12-15. Storage rooms - Flammable liquids and dangerous chemicals
- § 18-12-16. Fire alarm systems
- § 18-12-17. Sprinklers
- § 18-12-18. Heating plant rooms
- § 18-12-19. Incinerators
- § 18-12-20. Ventilation
- § 18-12-21. Hot water
- § 18-12-22. Gas
- § 18-12-23. Electrical
- § 18-12-24. Change of occupancy
- § 18-12-25. Reference data
- § 18-13-01. Definitions. (Contingent expiration date - See note)
- § 18-13-02. Test method and performance standard - Penalty. (Contingent expiration
- § 18-13-03. Certification and product change. (Contingent expiration date - See note)
- § 18-13-04. Marking of cigarette packaging. (Contingent expiration date - See note)
- § 18-13-05. Penalties. (Contingent expiration date - See note)
- § 18-13-06. Implementation. (Contingent expiration date - See note)
- § 18-13-07. Inspection. (Contingent expiration date - See note)
- § 18-13-08. Fire prevention and public safety fund
- § 18-13-09. Sale outside of North Dakota. (Contingent expiration date - See note)
- § 18-13-10. Local regulation. (Contingent expiration date - See note)
- § 18-14-01. Interstate compact for the prevention and control of wildland fires