North Dakota Code 24-12-02 – Obstructing highways
No person may:
Terms Used In North Dakota Code 24-12-02
- Jurisdiction: (1) The legal authority of a court to hear and decide a case. Concurrent jurisdiction exists when two courts have simultaneous responsibility for the same case. (2) The geographic area over which the court has authority to decide cases.
- Person: means any person, firm, partnership, association, corporation, limited liability company, organization, or business trust. See North Dakota Code 24-01-01.1
- Right of way: means a general term denoting land, property, or interest therein, acquired for or devoted to highway purposes and shall include, but not be limited to publicly owned and controlled rest and recreation areas, sanitary facilities reasonably necessary to accommodate the traveling public, and tracts of land necessary for the restoration, preservation, and enhancement of scenic beauty adjacent to the state highway system. See North Dakota Code 24-01-01.1
- year: means twelve consecutive months. See North Dakota Code 1-01-33
1. Obstruct any public highway in any manner with intent to prevent the free use thereof by the public; 2. Willfully and knowingly obstruct or plow up, or cause to be obstructed or plowed up, any public highway or right of way, except by order of the officials having jurisdiction over such highway for the purpose of working or improving the same; 3. Build or place a barbed wire fence across any well-traveled trail which has been the usual and common route of travel for not less than one year without placing on the outside of the top tier of barbed wire on said fence a board, pole, or other suitable protection, to be at least sixteen feet [4.88 meters] in length; or
4. Plow up a section line in a manner so as to obstruct usual travel on the section line.