City engineer - Qualifications - Duties - Compensation - Plans or surveys - Preservation and transfer to successor
N.D. Cent. Code § 40-20-03
in effect40-20-03. City engineer - Qualifications - Duties - Compensation - Plans or surveys -
Preservation and transfer to successor.
The city engineer must be a practical surveyor and engineer. The city engineer shall keep
an office in some convenient place in the city and the governing body, by ordinance, shall
prescribe the city engineer's duties and compensation for services performed for the city. All
surveys, profiles, plans, or estimates made by the city engineer for the city are the property of
the city and must be carefully preserved in the office of the engineer and must be open to the
inspection of all interested persons. The surveys, profiles, plans, estimates, and all books and
papers pertaining to the city engineer's office shall be delivered by the engineer at the expiration
of the city engineer's term of office to the successor city engineer or to the governing body of the
city.
Source: Open US Law by Vaquill AI (CC BY 4.0)URL: https://ndlegis.gov/cencode/t40c20.pdf#nameddest=40-20-03Fetched: 10/16/2026