North Dakota § 40-48-24 - Improvements in unapproved streets

§ 40-48-24. Improvements in unapproved streets

The municipality shall not accept, lay out, open, improve, grade, pave, or curb any street, or lay or authorize the laying of sewers or connections in any street or right of way within any portion of territory for which the planning commission shall have adopted a major traffic street plan unless such street: 1. Shall have been accepted or opened as, or otherwise shall have received the legal status of, a public street prior to the adoption of such plan; or 2. Corresponds with a street shown on the official master plan or with a street on a subdivision plat approved by the planning commission or with a street on a street map made and officially adopted by the commission. The governing body, however, may accept any street not shown or not corresponding with a street on the official master plan or on an approved subdivision plat or an approved street map if the ordinance or other measure accepting such street first is submitted to the planning commission for its approval, and, if approved by the commission, it is enacted or passed by not less than a majority of the entire membership of the governing body, or, if disapproved by the commission, it is enacted or passed by not less than two-thirds of the entire membership of the governing body. A street approved by the planning commission upon submission by the governing body or a street accepted by a two-thirds vote of the governing body after disapproval by the planning commission shall have the status of an approved street as fully as though it originally had been shown on the official master plan or on a subdivision plat approved by the planning commission or originally had been mapped by the commission.