North Dakota Ordinances (2026)

North Dakota has no tiny-home-specific statute, but N.D.C.C. § 54-21.3-03 requires every modular, prebuilt, or factory-built dwelling, a tiny house included, to be constructed to the…

North Dakota requires every beekeeper to obtain an annual state license and register apiary locations with the Department of Agriculture under NDCC Chapter 4.1-16. The $5 license…

North Dakota is a fence-in state: no livestock may be permitted to run at large. An owner or possessor who willfully lets cattle, horses, sheep, goats, or swine roam by failing to…

North Dakota regulates exotic and nontraditional livestock under NDCC 36-01-08.2, requiring state licensing for Category 2 and 3 animals including big cats, bears, and primates. The…

The North Dakota Game and Fish Department prohibits baiting deer on most state and federal lands and restricts feeding wildlife in chronic wasting disease (CWD) management zones under…

North Dakota requires vape and tobacco retailers to hold a tobacco dealer's license from the Office of the State Tax Commissioner under NDCC chapter 57-36, and to verify buyers' age…

North Dakota's Compassionate Care Act (NDCC 19-24.1) establishes statewide licensing of medical cannabis dispensaries with mandatory location buffers, preempting local approval of…

North Dakota law prohibits all personal home cultivation of cannabis. Recreational marijuana remains illegal, and the state's medical cannabis program (NDCC 19-24.1) bars patient or…

North Dakota sets a uniform statewide minimum wage under NDCC 34-06, and political subdivisions cannot establish higher local wage floors for private employers.

North Dakota erosion control runs through soil conservation districts under N.D.C.C. chapter 4.1-20. Districts can adopt binding land-use regulations, terracing, contour cultivation…

North Dakota requires floodplain communities to adopt floodplain management ordinances meeting NFIP minimums under NDCC 61-16.2, with state coordination through the Department of Water…

North Dakota law makes neighbors mutually and equally responsible for maintaining the partition fence between their enclosed lands. Township supervisors act as fence viewers, apportion…

North Dakota Century Code Chapters 23-15 and 23-15.1 govern the sale and use of consumer fireworks. Wholesalers are licensed by the State Fire Marshal (Insurance Department); retailers…

North Dakota Century Code Chapter 18-08 grants the Governor and county commissioners authority to declare burn bans during periods of high fire danger, and these declarations preempt…

North Dakota allows constitutional concealed carry for residents 18 and older under NDCC 62.1-04, while still offering optional permits for reciprocity with other states.

North Dakota broadly preempts local firearm regulation under NDCC 62.1-01-03, reserving most gun-related ordinance authority to the state legislature with narrow exceptions for…

North Dakota permits open carry of firearms by eligible adults under NDCC 62.1, with location-based limits and the state preempting most local open carry restrictions.

North Dakota allows eligible adults to carry loaded firearms in vehicles under NDCC 62.1-04, with constitutional carry permitting concealed transport without a permit statewide.

North Dakota requires mobile food establishments, including food trucks and trailers, to obtain a state license under NDCC Chapter 23-09 and the North Dakota Food Code (NDAC…

North Dakota's Attorney General licenses every charitable gambling operation under N.D.C.C. ch. 53-06.1: bingo, raffles, pull tabs, electronic pull tab devices, and even blackjack…

North Dakota lets a private card game or friendly wager run without a permit as long as no player's stake on a single hand, game, or event tops $25, per N.D.C.C. § 12.1-28-02. Cross…

North Dakota has no commercial or online sportsbook. Century Code chapter 12.1-28 defines gambling to include wagering on "the happening or outcome of an event, including an election…

North Dakota has no general HOA act. For condominiums, N.D.C.C. § 47-04.1-11 makes a reasonable common-expense assessment a debt of the owner and a recorded lien on the unit. For…

North Dakota has no association-specific meetings or records statute, so an HOA or condominium association incorporated as a nonprofit runs on chapter 10-33 of the Century Code…

North Dakota places almost no statutory limits on HOA authority. N.D.C.C. § 47-04.1-14 bars a condominium covenant from prohibiting a political yard sign. The solar-easement law (§…

North Dakota gives condominium unit owners a statutory right to install an electric vehicle charging station. Section 47-04.1-16 of the North Dakota Century Code makes void and…

North Dakota has no statute that caps association fines, sets a fine schedule, or requires a hearing before a monetary penalty. Section 47-04.1-08 of the Century Code instead makes…

North Dakota has no homeowners association act and no statute that lets an association foreclose on a home for unpaid dues. Title 47 contains exactly one common-interest chapter…

North Dakota does not limit an association's power to ban or cap leasing. There is no grandfather clause for owners already renting, no minimum lease term, no percentage cap and no…

North Dakota bars every state agency and political subdivision from requiring a license, permit, certification, inspection, packaging or labeling for cottage food products, and it sets…

North Dakota's Department of Health and Human Services licenses family and group child care homes under NDCC 50-11.1, preempting most local licensing of in-home daycare operations…

North Dakota has no microenterprise home kitchen permit. Cooked-to-order meals sold from a private home run into the food establishment licence in N.D.C.C. 23-09-16, and the Century…

North Dakota has one roadblock statute, chapter 24-15 of the Century Code, and its authorizing purpose is apprehending people wanted for violating the laws of this state, another state…

North Dakota has no statute that grants a right to record police, and it has no buffer-zone offense of the kind Florida and Louisiana enacted. What it has is an eavesdropping statute…

North Dakota is usually listed as a state with no stop-and-identify law, and that is not quite right. Section 29-29-21 of the Century Code expressly authorizes a peace officer to…

North Dakota has enacted nothing like the cannabis-era search protections that California, Michigan and Maryland wrote. There is no statute saying that lawful possession cannot justify…

North Dakota generally permits rooftop rainwater collection for non-potable residential use. State water appropriation law under N.D.C.C. ch. 61-04 governs surface and groundwater…

North Dakota Century Code § 4.1-47-02 makes it every person's duty to control the spread of noxious weeds and bars selling or distributing them statewide. County and city weed boards…

North Dakota registers low-speed vehicles under chapter 39-29.1 of the Century Code and lets them use only highways posted at thirty-five miles per hour or less, with direct crossings…

North Dakota's Airport Zoning Act (N.D.C.C. ch. 2-04) lets counties, cities, park districts, and townships zone airport hazard areas to stop structures and trees from obstructing…

North Dakota Century Code Chapter 23.1-15 sets statewide procedures for removing, storing, titling, and disposing of abandoned motor vehicles. Local law enforcement must follow these…

North Dakota regulates nonconsensual towing through chapter 23.1-15 of the Century Code, the Abandoned Motor Vehicles chapter administered by the Department of Environmental Quality. A…

Under N.D. Cent. Code § 47-32-01, a landlord may evict when a tenant holds over or 'fails to pay rent for three days after the rent is due.' Section 47-32-02 then requires three days'…

N.D. Cent. Code § 47-16-13.1 requires North Dakota landlords to keep rentals fit and habitable: meeting building and housing codes, making repairs, and maintaining plumbing, heating…

North Dakota Century Code Chapter 47-32 governs eviction actions uniformly statewide. North Dakota does not require just cause for non-renewal; a landlord may end a month-to-month…

N.D. Cent. Code § 47-16-07.3 lets a landlord enter only during reasonable hours and in a reasonable manner, and the landlord must first obtain the tenant's consent unless it is…

Under N.D. Cent. Code § 47-16-15, either party may end a month-to-month tenancy by giving at least one calendar month's written notice at any time, with rent owed through the…

North Dakota expressly preempts local rent control. N.D. Cent. Code 47-16-02.1 bars any political subdivision from enacting, maintaining, or enforcing an ordinance or resolution that…

Under N.D. Cent. Code § 47-16-07, a North Dakota landlord may change the rent or other terms of a month-to-month lease by giving the tenant written notice at least 30 days before the…

North Dakota caps a residential security deposit at one month's rent. Under N.D. Cent. Code 47-16-07.1, the landlord must hold the deposit in a federally insured interest-bearing…

North Dakota's baseline adverse-possession period is 20 years of continuous, adverse possession (N.D. Cent. Code §§ 28-01-04 and 28-01-08). The period drops to 10 years under §…

North Dakota counties and townships may adopt agricultural zoning under NDCC 11-33 and 58-03, balancing local land use control with statewide Right to Farm protections.

North Dakota Right to Farm law under NDCC 42-04 protects established agricultural operations from nuisance lawsuits when surrounding land uses change over time.

North Dakota imposes a 5 percent state sales tax on gross receipts from renting a hotel, motel room, or other accommodations, including Airbnb and Vrbo-style short-term rentals…

North Dakota law restricts political and outdoor advertising signs within state highway rights-of-way and along interstate and primary highways, preempting local rules that conflict…

North Dakota has no statewide preemption on plastic bags, leaving cities and counties free to adopt their own bag bans, fees, or recycling rules.

North Dakota has no statewide rules on plastic straws under NDCC, and local governments retain authority to adopt their own straw policies if desired.

North Dakota requires electrical permits for solar photovoltaic installations under NDCC Chapter 43-09 and building permits under the state-adopted IRC and IBC. The State Electrical…

North Dakota requires charitable organizations and paid professional fundraisers to register with the Secretary of State under NDCC Chapter 50-22 before soliciting contributions in the…

North Dakota adopts the International Building Code and International Residential Code statewide under NDCC Chapter 54-21.3, requiring building permits for permanent swimming pools…

North Dakota prohibits selling tobacco, electronic smoking devices, and alternative nicotine products to anyone under 21, and bars purchase, possession, or use by anyone under 21…

North Dakota does not ban flavored tobacco, menthol cigarettes, or flavored vapes. Retail sales are governed by NDCC 12.1-31-03 (age and access) and dealer licensing under NDCC chapter…

North Dakota bars landfilling four waste streams outright: lead-acid batteries, used motor oil, wind turbine blades, and major appliances must go to resource recovery, not the dump…

North Dakota permits extra forward lighting in four named categories and caps each of them at two lamps: spot lamps, fog lamps, auxiliary passing lamps and auxiliary driving lamps, all…

North Dakota never legalised a windshield-mounted camera. Section 39-21-39 contains exactly two exceptions, one for windows behind the driver on a vehicle with both outside mirrors and…

Lane splitting and lane filtering are both unlawful in North Dakota. Section 39-10.2-03(3) says no person may operate a motorcycle between lanes of traffic or between adjacent lines or…

North Dakota has no statute that names license plate covers, shields, tinted lenses or frames, and a search of title 39 returns no prohibition on any of them. What it has instead is a…

The phrase radar detector does not appear anywhere in the North Dakota Century Code. A full-text scan of all 2,531 chapters turns up exactly two provisions using the word radar, and…

North Dakota does allow studded tires, but only on pneumatic tires whose metal studs project no more than one-sixteenth of an inch beyond the tread, and only from October fifteenth to…

North Dakota sets its tint limits in a single subsection, N.D.C.C. § 39-21-39(4). Anything displayed, affixed or applied to the windshield must leave a light transmittance of at least…