N.D. Cent. Code § 24-06-05
24-06-05. Overseer responsible for machinery
24-06-05. Overseer responsible for machinery
Each overseer of highways is responsible personally for the proper use and care of all
implements while in the overseer's charge, or in use in the overseer's district, and any overseer
of highways, or other person who, through negligence or willfully injures or damages such
implements or permits them to be injured, is liable for such damage to the township, in an action
to be brought by the chairman of the board of township supervisors in the township or any
adjoining township.