North Dakota Code § 11-18-14

Recorder to remove and destroy certain documents - Records to be made
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The recorder in each county in this state, unless otherwise earlier permitted by law, shall 
remove from the files in the recorder's office, and destroy, all chattel mortgages, agricultural 
processor's liens, agricultural supplier's liens, agister's liens, mechanic's liens, repairman's liens, 
unpaid earned insurance premium liens, and sales contracts together with any releases for the 
instrument upon which a claim for relief has accrued and which claim for relief is more than ten 
years old. At the time of destroying the files the recorder shall note on the margin of the index 
opposite the record of each instrument so removed and destroyed the date when the instrument 
was destroyed.

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