North Dakota Code § 39-24-08

Pursuant to this code and this chapter, rules for the regulation and use of snowmobiles must 
be adopted as follows:
1. The director shall adopt rules for the registration of snowmobiles and display of 
registration numbers.
2. The director has the authority in the interest of public health, welfare, and safety to 
regulate, restrict, or prohibit, by rule, the operation of snowmobiles on those highways 
under the director's jurisdiction. The director's authority to prohibit the use of 
snowmobiles is limited to the roadways, shoulders, inslopes, and medians within the 
right of way, except where such action is necessary to avoid an obstacle. 
Notwithstanding the racing prohibitions in section 39 -08-03.1, the director may, on a 
case-by-case basis, permit organized and bona fide snowmobile races on the ditch 
bottoms, backslopes, and the top of the backslopes of the highway rights of way under 
the director's jurisdiction. The planning, organization, route selection, and safety 
precautions of any such race are the sole responsibility of the permittee. It is expressly 
provided that the director, and the department and the employees thereof, shall incur 
no liability whatsoever for permitting such races.
3. The director of the parks and recreation department shall adopt rules for regulating 
use of snowmobiles in state parks and other state-owned land under the supervision of 
the director of the parks and recreation department.
4. The governing bodies of political subdivisions shall promulgate rules and regulations 
for regulating use of snowmobiles in recreation and other appropriate areas under their 
jurisdiction. The governing bodies of cities may, by ordinance, regulate, restrict, and 
prohibit the use of snowmobiles when operated within the exclusive jurisdiction of 
cities.

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