§ 39-05-01 Definitions
§ 39-05-02.1 Certificate of title required
§ 39-05-02.2 Exclusions from the certificate of title requirement
§ 39-05-03 Department not to license vehicle until application is made for a certificate of title
§ 39-05-05 Application for certificate of title – Contents – Fee
§ 39-05-08 Application to be checked against certain indexes
§ 39-05-09 Issuance, contents, delivery, and term of certificate
§ 39-05-09.1 Lost, stolen, or mutilated certificate of title
§ 39-05-09.2 Suspension or revocation of certificates of title
§ 39-05-11 Altering or forging certificate of title – Penalty
§ 39-05-16.1 Release of a security interest
§ 39-05-17 Transfer of title of vehicle – Endorsement required – Certificate of title delivered – New certificate obtained – Penalty
§ 39-05-17.2 Body damage disclosure – Rules – When required – Penalty
§ 39-05-17.3 Vehicle leases that are not sales or security interests
§ 39-05-19 Obtaining certificate of title for vehicle when ownership obtained by other than voluntary means
§ 39-05-20 Transferee may obtain new certificate of title upon inability to obtain old certificate – Proof of ownership – Appeal
§ 39-05-20.1 Salvage certificate of title
§ 39-05-20.2 Issuance of salvage certificate of title
§ 39-05-20.3 Grounds for refusing certificate of title
§ 39-05-20.4 Titles for salvage and junk motor vehicles – Rules – Penalty
§ 39-05-21 Refusal to issue certificate of title – Revoking certificate – Appeal
§ 39-05-22 Department to maintain file of surrendered certificates of title – Purpose – Records
§ 39-05-27 Vehicle dealer to have certificate of title or other documentary evidence to prove possession
§ 39-05-28 Penalty for defacing, destroying, removing, or altering engine, serial, or identification numbers
§ 39-05-30 Fees and revenues collected placed in highway tax distribution fund – Payment of salaries and expenses
§ 39-05-31 Director may employ office help and purchase supplies
§ 39-05-31.1 Administration of oaths
§ 39-05-32 Officers to enforce provisions of chapter
§ 39-05-33 General penalty
§ 39-05-35 Manufactured homes – Conversion to real property – Procedure – Rules
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Terms Used In North Dakota Code > Chapter 39-05 - Title Registration

  • Affidavit: A written statement of facts confirmed by the oath of the party making it, before a notary or officer having authority to administer oaths.
  • Appeal: A request made after a trial, asking another court (usually the court of appeals) to decide whether the trial was conducted properly. To make such a request is "to appeal" or "to take an appeal." One who appeals is called the appellant.
  • Appropriation: The provision of funds, through an annual appropriations act or a permanent law, for federal agencies to make payments out of the Treasury for specified purposes. The formal federal spending process consists of two sequential steps: authorization
  • Evidence: Information presented in testimony or in documents that is used to persuade the fact finder (judge or jury) to decide the case for one side or the other.
  • following: when used by way of reference to a chapter or other part of a statute means the next preceding or next following chapter or other part. See North Dakota Code 1-01-49
  • Fraud: Intentional deception resulting in injury to another.
  • Individual: means a human being. See North Dakota Code 1-01-49
  • 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.
  • Liabilities: The aggregate of all debts and other legal obligations of a particular person or legal entity.
  • Lien: A claim against real or personal property in satisfaction of a debt.
  • Official: means a municipal judge or a magistrate or other qualified individual appointed by the presiding judge of the judicial district to serve for all or part of the judicial district. See North Dakota Code 39-06.1-01
  • Organization: includes a foreign or domestic association, business trust, corporation, enterprise, estate, joint venture, limited liability company, limited liability partnership, limited partnership, partnership, trust, or any legal or commercial entity. See North Dakota Code 1-01-49
  • paper: means any flexible material upon which it is usual to write. See North Dakota Code 1-01-27
  • Person: means an individual, organization, government, political subdivision, or government agency or instrumentality. See North Dakota Code 1-01-49
  • Property: includes property, real and personal. See North Dakota Code 1-01-49
  • Real property: Land, and all immovable fixtures erected on, growing on, or affixed to the land.
  • Rule: includes regulation. See North Dakota Code 1-01-49
  • State: when applied to the different parts of the United States, includes the District of Columbia and the territories. See North Dakota Code 1-01-49
  • United States: includes the District of Columbia and the territories. See North Dakota Code 1-01-49
  • written: include "typewriting" and "typewritten" and "printing" and "printed" except in the case of signatures and when the words are used by way of contrast to typewriting and printing. See North Dakota Code 1-01-37
  • year: means twelve consecutive months. See North Dakota Code 1-01-33