North Dakota Code 39-34-03 – Transportation driver requirements
1. Before permitting an individual to act as a transportation network company driver on its digital platform, the transportation network company shall:
Terms Used In North Dakota Code 39-34-03
- Fraud: Intentional deception resulting in injury to another.
- Individual: means a human being. See North Dakota Code 1-01-49
- Property: includes property, real and personal. See North Dakota Code 1-01-49
- Sex: means the biological state of being male or female, based on the individual's nonambiguous sex organs, chromosomes, or endogenous hormone profiles at birth. See North Dakota Code 1-01-49
a. Require the individual to submit an application to the transportation network company, which includes information regarding the individual’s address, age, driver’s license, driving history, motor vehicle registration, automobile liability insurance, and other information required by the transportation network company; b. Conduct, or have a third party conduct, a local and national criminal background check for each applicant that must include:
(1) Multistate and multijurisdiction criminal records locator or other similar commercial nationwide database with validation; and
(2) National sex offender registry database; and
c. Obtain and review a driving history research report for the individual.
2. The transportation network company may not permit an individual to act as a transportation network company driver on its digital platform who:
a. Has had more than three moving violations in the prior three-year period, or one major violation in the prior three-year period, including attempting to evade the police, reckless driving, or driving on a suspended or revoked license; b. Has been convicted, within the past seven years, of driving under the influence of drugs or alcohol, fraud, a sexual offense, use of a motor vehicle to commit a felony, a crime involving property damage, theft, an act of violence, or an act of terror; c. Is a match in the national sex offender registry database; d. Does not possess a valid driver’s license; e. Does not possess proof of registration for the motor vehicle used to provide transportation network company services; f. Does not possess proof of automobile liability insurance for the motor vehicle used to provide transportation network company services; or g. Is not at least twenty-one years of age.