North Dakota Code — 49
Browse 366 sections in division 49 of the North Dakota code. Each section page includes the full statutory text, official source links, and citation guidance.
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- § 49-01-01. Definitions
- § 49-01-01.1. Public service commission program fund - Transfer to general fund
- § 49-01-02. Public service commission - How constituted
- § 49-01-03. Oath of public service commissioners
- § 49-01-04. Offices of public service commission
- § 49-01-05. Salary of commissioners
- § 49-01-06. Public service commission - Majority vote
- § 49-01-07. Proceedings of public service commission - Pledge of allegiance
- § 49-01-08. Appointment of examiners by public service commission
- § 49-01-09. Attorneys for public service commission - Attorney general - State's
- § 49-01-10. Assistants - Authority of public service commission to appoint
- § 49-01-11. Enforcement of orders of commission - Costs and expenses
- § 49-01-12. Disposition of penalties
- § 49-01-12.1. Public utility fee
- § 49-01-13. Biennial report
- § 49-01-14. When copies of official documents are evidence
- § 49-01-15. Charges for copies and records determined by the public service
- § 49-02-01. General jurisdiction of the public service commission over public utilities
- § 49-02-01.1. Jurisdiction of commission limited as to certain utilities - Exemption
- § 49-02-01.2. Pipeline safety - Public service commission jurisdiction - Hazardous
- § 49-02-02. Powers of public service commission with reference to public utilities
- § 49-02-02.1. Applicant to pay cost of publishing notice
- § 49-02-03. Power of public service commission to establish rates
- § 49-02-03.1. Power to fix special rates - Public service commission
- § 49-02-04. Power of commission to regulate services
- § 49-02-05. Use by one utility of the facilities of another utility
- § 49-02-05.1. Power to fix terms by which the facilities of one utility may cross those of
- § 49-02-06. Entering premises of public utility by public service commission for
- § 49-02-07. Appliances tested on request of consumer - Fee for testing
- § 49-02-08. Testing meters - Gas - Electric
- § 49-02-09. Purpose of testing meters
- § 49-02-10. Rules for meters
- § 49-02-11. Standards - Classification - Examinations - Provided by public service
- § 49-02-12. System of accounts, records, and memoranda established
- § 49-02-12.1. Public service commission open meetings
- § 49-02-13. Jurisdiction of commission limited as to municipal utilities
- § 49-02-14. Inspection of public utility accounts - Right as to examinations
- § 49-02-15. Excessive or discriminatory charges - Reparation
- § 49-02-16. Investigation of interstate rates
- § 49-02-17. Unreasonable rates, rules, and practices affecting interstate commerce
- § 49-02-18. Failure of utility to adjust rates - Action by public service commission
- § 49-02-19. Power to fix special rates - Public service commission
- § 49-02-20. Notice to be given before special rate fixed
- § 49-02-21. Power of commission to regulate raising and lowering of electric supply
- § 49-02-22. Charges for raising and lowering lines - Reimbursement for unreasonable
- § 49-02-23. Consideration of environmental externality values prohibited
- § 49-02-24. Renewable electricity and recycled energy credit trading and tracking
- § 49-02-25. Renewable electricity and recycled energy defined
- § 49-02-26. Qualifying for renewable electricity and recycled energy credits
- § 49-02-27. Decommissioning of renewable energy conversion facilities
- § 49-02-28. State renewable and recycled energy objective
- § 49-02-29. Qualifying for renewable electricity and recycled energy objective
- § 49-02-30. Application of electricity generated from existing hydroelectric facilities in
- § 49-02-31. Purchase and retirement of renewable energy and recycled energy
- § 49-02-32. Use of renewable and recycled energy - Economic evaluation
- § 49-02-33. Verification of generation and of purchase of renewable energy and
- § 49-02-34. Public reporting on progress toward meeting the renewable energy and
- § 49-03-01. Certificate of public convenience and necessity - Secured by electric public
- § 49-03-01.1. Limitation on electric transmission and distribution lines, extensions, and
- § 49-03-01.2. Limitation on issuance of orders and certificates of public convenience
- § 49-03-01.3. Exclusions from limitations on electric distribution lines, extension, and
- § 49-03-01.4. Enforcement of act
- § 49-03-01.5. Definitions
- § 49-03-02. Prerequisites to issuance of certificate of public convenience and
- § 49-03-03. Franchise not to be exercised without certificate
- § 49-03-04. Replacement or renewal of franchise - Certificate of public convenience and
- § 49-03-05. Complaint upon violation of chapter
- § 49-03-06. Service agreements among electric providers
- § 49-04-01. Public utility to provide adequate service
- § 49-04-02. Reasonable charges for services and commodities of public utility
- § 49-04-02.1. Customer deposits - Interest
- § 49-04-03. Violation of prescribed system of accounts unlawful
- § 49-04-04. Power of public utility to issue evidence of indebtedness
- § 49-04-05. Commission approval required to dispose of or encumber franchises,
- § 49-04-06. Acquiring stock or membership interest or business of another utility Authorization by commission
- § 49-04-07. Unreasonable preferences or advantages prohibited
- § 49-04-08. Certain discriminations allowed
- § 49-04-09. Long and short hauls
- § 49-04-10. Freight pooling
- § 49-04-11. Free passes restricted
- § 49-04-12. Free transportation authorized in certain cases
- § 49-04-13. Definitions
- § 49-04-14. Penalty for issuing free passes
- § 49-04-15. Public utility tax report - Furnished to commission on request
- § 49-04-16. Orders from commission - Observance by public utility
- § 49-04-17. Reasonable rules and regulations by public utility
- § 49-04-18. Public utility reports furnished to commission
- § 49-04-19. Security interests against transmitting utilities - Filing instruments with
- § 49-04-20. Notification before discontinuance of utility service
- § 49-05-01. Who may make a complaint
- § 49-05-02. Right to make certain complaints limited
- § 49-05-03. Hearing on complaint
- § 49-05-04. Application for increase of rates - Information required - Fee
- § 49-05-04.1. Test year - Public utility rate filings
- § 49-05-04.2. Rate adjustment - Federal environmental mandate costs
- § 49-05-04.3. Rate adjustment - Transmission facility costs
- § 49-05-04.4. Integrated resource plan
- § 49-05-05. Changes in tariff rates - Notice to commission - Filing fee
- § 49-05-06. Hearing by commission on proposed change of rates
- § 49-05-07. Immunity from prosecution for self-incrimination
- § 49-05-08. Orders and decisions of commission - Conclusive
- § 49-05-09. Decisions of commission - Rescission or amendment
- § 49-05-10. Improper action taken by utility - Damages - Who may sue - Recovery
- § 49-05-11. Orders issued by commission - Period remaining in force
- § 49-05-12. Appeal from decision of commission
- § 49-05-13. Suspension of order on appeal only by order of court
- § 49-05-14. Stay on appeal - Suspending bond - Impounding excess charges
- § 49-05-15. Appeals to supreme court
- § 49-05-16. Advance determination of prudence
- § 49-05-17. Resource planning
- § 49-05-18. Planning reserve margin - Penalty
- § 49-05-19. Reliable service obligation
- § 49-06-01. Valuation of property as basis for determining reasonableness of rates
- § 49-06-02. Value of property for ratemaking purposes - Determination
- § 49-06-03. Value of goodwill not to be considered in ratemaking
- § 49-06-04. Fair market price to be allowed in fixing valuations
- § 49-06-05. When valuation or revaluation required
- § 49-06-06. Disagreement on new rate - Bond required
- § 49-06-07. Failure of utility to file bond - Temporary rates prescribed by commission
- § 49-06-08. Determination of permanent rates
- § 49-06-09. Utility to remit to consumer if rate lower than temporary rate
- § 49-06-10. Valuation - Notice - Finality - Prima facie evidence
- § 49-06-11. Hearings as to valuations - Called by commission
- § 49-06-12. Notice of hearing - Preliminary examination
- § 49-06-13. Hearing - Right of public utility - Evidence - Findings - Review
- § 49-06-14. Findings of commission - Admissible as evidence
- § 49-06-15. Corrections and revaluation of public utility property
- § 49-06-16. Additional hearings of commission
- § 49-06-17. Limitation on number of valuation or revaluation orders
- § 49-06-18. Employment of experts - Attorneys - Costs of hearing
- § 49-06-19. Additional costs to be paid - Refund
- § 49-06-20. Amount not paid to draw interest - Attorney general to collect
- § 49-06-21. Writs of attachment and garnishment summons to be issued
- § 49-06-22. Public utility valuation fund - Use
- § 49-06-23. Expenses of valuation or revaluation paid into public utility valuation
- § 49-06-24. When electric rates not to be increased
- § 49-07-01. Violation of commission order or rule - Penalty
- § 49-07-01.1. Violation of statute, commission order, or commission rule - Assessment
- § 49-07-02. Each violation a separate offense
- § 49-07-03. Act of officer or agent that of principal
- § 49-07-04. Personal liability of officer, agent, or employee - Penalty
- § 49-07-05. Liability of persons other than public utility - Penalty
- § 49-07-05.1. Violations of pipeline safety standards - Penalties
- § 49-07-06. Cumulative penalties - Not a bar to contempt
- § 49-09-01. Right of way through state lands - Conditions
- § 49-09-02. School lands to be taken at appraised value
- § 49-09-03. How right of way obtained from board of university and school lands
- § 49-09-04. When right of way reverts to state
- § 49-09-04.1. Abandonment of railway lines - Public service commission authority Trust agreement - Term - Reversion of property
- § 49-09-04.2. Abandoned railroad right of way - Sale - Priority of purchasers
- § 49-09-04.3. Abandoned railway lines - Removal of abandoned materials - Charge by
- § 49-09-04.4. Railroad abandonment - Records to be open to commission
- § 49-09-05. Securing right of way over land of decedent or ward
- § 49-09-06. Petition for right of way over land of decedent or ward
- § 49-09-07. County court to approve petition for right of way over land of decedent or
- § 49-09-08. Trust deeds and mortgages of railroad property
- § 49-09-09. Sale under trust deed or upon mortgage foreclosure
- § 49-09-10. Title acquired under sale
- § 49-09-10.1. Identification of railroad rights of way - Duties of commission
- § 49-09-10.2. Identification of right of way to be acquired, leased, or transferred
- § 49-09-11. Compensation for another railroad's property - Determined according to law
- § 49-09-11.1. Negotiations for reopening of railway line - Railroad intending to abandon
- § 49-09-11.2. Negotiations for reopening of railway line - Railroad abandoning line
- § 49-09-11.3. Negotiations for sale, transfer, or lease of railroad property - Public
- § 49-09-11.4. Commission's authority in public interest - Cooperation with other states
- § 49-09-11.5. Interstate commerce commission certificate
- § 49-09-11.6. Public service commission authorized to conduct periodic meetings
- § 49-09-11.7. Rules for enforcement
- § 49-09-12. Sale of railroad equipment under security agreement - How property
- § 49-09-13. Conditional sale contract - Filing - Marking property
- § 49-09-14. Utility property transfers filed with secretary of state
- § 49-09-15. Conveyance of real property other than right of way - Recording
- § 49-09-16. Right of way - Telecommunications - Electric light - Gas and oil pipeline
- § 49-11-00.1. Definitions
- § 49-11-01. Obstruction of crossing by railroad - Provision for temporary way
- § 49-11-02. Railroad bridges must be in good repair
- § 49-11-03. Railroad bridge must provide clear passage over highway
- § 49-11-04. Highways and watercourses to be restored to former state
- § 49-11-05. Railroad to maintain sufficient highway crossings
- § 49-11-06. Railroad crossings - Construction and maintenance
- § 49-11-07. Railroad crossing - Failure to construct or maintain - Penalty
- § 49-11-08. Making intersecting railroad crossing - No delay if bond filed
- § 49-11-09. Railroads intersecting - Compensation governed by law of eminent domain
- § 49-11-10. Crossings of another railroad - Drawbridges - Stopping of trains
- § 49-11-11. Crossing other railroad without stopping - Approval of commission
- § 49-11-12. District court may review commission's disapproval of plan for crossing
- § 49-11-13. Grade crossings - Determination of their safety by commission
- § 49-11-14. Notice to railroad of investigation of grade crossing
- § 49-11-15. Penalty for violation of order
- § 49-11-16. Caution signs - Specifications - Posting at crossings
- § 49-11-17. Railroad crossing over land owned on both sides by one person - Penalty
- § 49-11-18. Construction of railroad - Crossing highway or waterway
- § 49-11-19. Blocking or obstructing crossing with train - Penalty
- § 49-11-19.1. Blocking or obstructing alternative crossings - Penalty
- § 49-11-20. Installation of flagman at crossings
- § 49-11-21. Warning device sounded at crossing by locomotive - Exceptions
- § 49-11-22. Liability for failure of locomotive to sound bell, horn, or whistle at crossing
- § 49-11-23. Liability of engineer for failure to sound bell, horn, or whistle of locomotive
- § 49-11-24. Railroad right of way - Fences
- § 49-11-25. How fence on railroad right of way to be constructed
- § 49-11-26. Landowner may require railroad to build hog-tight fence
- § 49-11-27. Requirements of hog-tight fence built by railroad on right of way
- § 49-11-28. Swinging gates - When railroad required to maintain
- § 49-11-29. Failure to construct fence or swinging gate - Penalty
- § 49-11-30. Failure of railroad to fence - Damage to owner of stock - How collected
- § 49-11-31. Certain sections not applicable within corporate limits
- § 49-11-32. Train crew exemption
- § 49-16-01. Liability of railroad for damages from fire
- § 49-16-01.1. Indemnity terms void and unenforceable
- § 49-16-01.2. Choice-of-laws clause void
- § 49-16-02. Railroad's liability for injury or death of employee
- § 49-16-03. Contributory negligence not bar to recovery
- § 49-16-04. Assumption of risk
- § 49-16-05. Contracts exempting railroad from liability void
- § 49-16-06. Limitation of actions
- § 49-16-07. Survival of right of action
- § 49-16-08. Defenses of assumption of risk and contributory negligence barred
- § 49-16-09. Personal injuries - When railroad not liable
- § 49-16-10. Liability for acts of railway police
- § 49-16-11. Liability of owner or operator of railroad limited
- § 49-19-01. Definition of common pipeline carriers
- § 49-19-02. Pipeline carriers - Special powers of commission
- § 49-19-03. Enforcement of orders by commission
- § 49-19-04. Reservation in gas franchises
- § 49-19-05. Percentage of native natural gas to be used
- § 49-19-06. Gas in commercial quantities - What constitutes
- § 49-19-07. Pro rata distribution of gas
- § 49-19-08. Operation of pipelines
- § 49-19-09. Permission to secure right of way - Condition
- § 49-19-10. Compensating county for damage to public road in laying pipelines
- § 49-19-11. Pipeline carrier must agree to carry without discrimination
- § 49-19-12. When pipeline carrier may exercise right of eminent domain
- § 49-19-13. Hearings on rates of pipeline carrier - Power of commission
- § 49-19-14. Reimbursement of excessive rates to shipper
- § 49-19-15. Exchange of tonnage by common carrier - Facilities to be maintained for
- § 49-19-16. Commission to make rules on deductions - Orders prima facie evidence
- § 49-19-17. Pipeline carriers to make and publish tariffs
- § 49-19-18. Joint action by commissions to regulate interstate commerce
- § 49-19-19. Discrimination between shippers in facilities furnished, service rendered,
- § 49-19-20. Duties of pipeline carriers
- § 49-19-21. Oil and gas wastes - Dangerous field operations - Commission to regulate
- § 49-19-22. Violation of law or rules by pipeline carriers - Penalty - Suit by attorney
- § 49-19-23. Unlawful discrimination - Damages - Suit
- § 49-19-24. Individuals guilty of discrimination - Penalty
- § 49-19-25. Fraudulent consumption of gas - Punishment
- § 49-20-01. Definitions
- § 49-20-02. Commission to regulate operation and maintenance of electrical lines
- § 49-20-03. Applications - Specifications - Drawings - Prerequisites to construction
- § 49-20-04. Hearing upon application - Time - Witnesses - Evidence
- § 49-20-05. Grant of application without hearing
- § 49-20-06. Apportionment of costs
- § 49-20-07. Rules and regulations adopted by commission
- § 49-20-08. Municipalities - Complaints - Hearings
- § 49-20-09. Regulatory nature of measures - Penalty for violation
- § 49-20-10. Commission may require extension of electric transmission lines
- § 49-20-11. Appeals from orders of commission
- § 49-20-12. Injury to electric supply lines - Penalty
- § 49-20-12.1. Notice of change in topography of lands under or adjacent to electric
- § 49-20-13. Electric current - Fraudulent use - Misdemeanor
- § 49-20-14. Meter deposits to electric power companies
- § 49-20-15. Liability of electric companies for inductive interference
- § 49-21-01. Definitions
- § 49-21-01.1. Inapplicability of provisions of chapter
- § 49-21-01.2. Exemption - Rate regulation
- § 49-21-01.3. Certain price changes from surcharges - Essential telecommunications
- § 49-21-01.4. Purchase of essential telecommunications services
- § 49-21-01.5. Access code number usage
- § 49-21-01.6. Call identification services - Charges prohibited - Notice - Exceptions
- § 49-21-01.7. Powers in general
- § 49-21-01.8. Eligible telecommunications company requirements
- § 49-21-01.9. Voice over internet protocol service and internet protocol-enabled service
- § 49-21-02. Telecommunications companies - Common carriers - Public policy
- § 49-21-02.1. Authority to exempt from regulation
- § 49-21-02.2. Cross-subsidization prohibited
- § 49-21-02.3. Directors, trustees, officers, and managers - Immunity from civil liability
- § 49-21-02.4. Unauthorized telecommunications service
- § 49-21-03. Articles of incorporation - Telephone - Telegraph
- § 49-21-04. Price schedules filed with the commission
- § 49-21-04.1. Maximum and minimum rates - Changes
- § 49-21-05. Schedule of prices to be available for public inspection
- § 49-21-06. Complaint against prices
- § 49-21-07. Discrimination unlawful
- § 49-21-08. Unnecessary duplication of exchanges prohibited
- § 49-21-08.1. Dialing parity - IntraLATA equal access
- § 49-21-09. Telecommunications - Connections
- § 49-21-10. Transmitting telecommunications from other telecommunications
- § 49-21-10.1. Excessive charges - Refunds
- § 49-21-10.2. Quality of service
- § 49-21-10.3. Complaints
- § 49-21-11. Mutual telephone company - Company carrier
- § 49-21-12. Assessments - Expenses - Sinking fund
- § 49-21-13. Extension of line and system
- § 49-21-13.1. Telephone cooperatives - Sale of physical plant - Approval
- § 49-21-14. Connections with other telephone systems permitted
- § 49-21-15. Physical connections
- § 49-21-16. Forfeiture for failure to comply with order
- § 49-21-17. Additional definitions
- § 49-21-18. Party line - Refusal to surrender - Emergency
- § 49-21-19. Distributors of telephone directories to print notice therein
- § 49-21-20. Penalty