North Dakota Code § 40-48-24

Improvements in unapproved streets
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The municipality shall not accept, lay out, open, improve, grade, pave, or curb any street, or 
lay or authorize the laying of sewers or connections in any street or right of way within any 
portion of territory for which the planning commission shall have adopted a major traffic street 
plan unless such street:
1. Shall have been accepted or opened as, or otherwise shall have received the legal 
status of, a public street prior to the adoption of such plan; or
2. Corresponds with a street shown on the official master plan or with a street on a 
subdivision plat approved by the planning commission or with a street on a street map 
made and officially adopted by the commission.
The governing body, however, may accept any street not shown or not corresponding with a 
street on the official master plan or on an approved subdivision plat or an approved street map if 
the ordinance or other measure accepting such street first is submitted to the planning 
commission for its approval, and, if approved by the commission, it is enacted or passed by not 
less than a majority of the entire membership of the governing body, or, if disapproved by the 
commission, it is enacted or passed by not less than two -thirds of the entire membership of the 
governing body. A street approved by the planning commission upon submission by the 
governing body or a street accepted by a two-thirds vote of the governing body after disapproval 
by the planning commission shall have the status of an approved street as fully as though it 
originally had been shown on the official master plan or on a subdivision plat approved by the 
planning commission or originally had been mapped by the commission.

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