North Dakota Code § 40-05-06

City fines and penalties limited
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1. Except as provided in subsections 2 and 3, the fine or penalty for the violation of any 
ordinance, resolution, or regulation of a city may not exceed one thousand five 
hundred dollars, and the imprisonment may not exceed thirty days for one offense.
2. For every violation of a city ordinance that regulates the operation or equipment of a 
motor vehicle or which regulates traffic, except those ordinances listed in section 
39-06.1-05, a fee may be established, by ordinance, which may exceed , by up to one 
hundred percent, the limit, for an equivalent category of violation, set forth in section 
39-06.1-06 except for a violation of a speed limitation.
3. For every violation of a city ordinance enforcing the requirements of title 40, Code of 
Federal Regulations, section 403 relating to publicly owned treatment works, or 
prohibiting shoplifting, vandalism, criminal mischief, or malicious mischief, the penalty 
may not exceed a fine of one thousand five hundred dollars, imprisonment for thirty 
days, or both such fine and imprisonment.
4. This section does not prohibit the use of the sentencing alternatives, other than a fine 
or imprisonment, provided by section 12.1 -32-02 for the violation of a city ordinance, 
nor does this section limit the use of deferred or suspended sentences under 
subsections 3 and 4 of section 12.1-32-02.

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