Permission to secure right of way - Condition
N.D. Cent. Code § 49-19-09
in effect49-19-09. Permission to secure right of way - Condition
The right to lay, maintain, and operate pipelines, together with telecommunications lines
incidental to and designed for use only in connection with the operation of such lines along,
across, or under any public stream or highway in this state, is conferred upon all common
pipeline carriers. Any person, firm, limited partnership, joint-stock association, corporation, or
limited liability company may acquire the right to construct pipelines and such incidental
telecommunications lines along, across, or over any public road or highway in this state by filing
with the commission an acceptance of the provisions of this chapter, expressly agreeing in
writing that in consideration of the rights so acquired, the applicant shall be and become a
common pipeline carrier, subject to the duties and obligations conferred or imposed in this
chapter. Such right to run along, across, or over any public road or highway, as herein provided
for, can be exercised only upon condition that the traffic thereon shall not be interfered with, that
such road or highway shall be restored promptly to its former condition of usefulness, and that
the restoration thereof shall be subject also to the supervision of the board of county
commissioners of the county in which said highway is situated.
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