North Dakota legislation · 69th Legislative Assembly
North Dakota HB1153: AN ACT to amend and reenact subsection 7 of section 49-23-01 of the North Dakota Century Code, relating to the one-call excavation notice system.
Status: Signed into law, March 25, 2025
Relating to the one‑call excavation notice system.
What the bill says
An act to amend and reenact subsection 7 of section 49-23-01 of the North Dakota Century Code, relating to the one-call excavation notice system.
From the enrolled text, March 14, 2025:
AN ACT to amend and reenact subsection 7 of section 49-23-01 of the North Dakota Century Code, relating to the one-call excavation notice system. SECTION 1. AMENDMENT. Subsection 7 of section 49-23-01 of the North Dakota Century Code is amended and reenacted as follows: 7. "Excavation" means any operation in which earth, rock, or other materials in or below the ground is moved or otherwise displaced by means of hand or power tools, power equipment, or explosives and includes grading, trenching, digging, ditching, dredging, drilling, augering, tunneling, boring, scraping, and cable or pipe plowing and driving. The term does not include: a. Opening a grave in a cemetery. b. Plowing, cultivating, planting, harvesting, and similar operations in connection with agricultural activities, unless any of these activities disturbs the soil to a depth of eighteen inches [45.72 centimeters] or more. c. Gardening and landscaping unless it disturbs the soil to a depth of twelve inches [30.48 centimeters] or more. d. Normal maintenance of paved roads and streets if the maintenance does not change the original gradeextend deeper than the depth of the existing pavement and does not involve the road ditch. e. Normal surface maintenance of gravel roads and streets if the maintenance does not involve the road ditch. e.f. Normal repair and maintenance of track and track bed by a …
Sponsors
- Jason Dockter (R, 7) · primary sponsor
- Dick Anderson (R, 6)
- Anna Novak (R, 33)
- Dale Patten (R, 26)
- Todd Porter (R, 34)
Latest actions
- : Filed with Secretary Of State 03/24
- : Signed by Governor 03/21
- : Sent to Governor
- : Signed by Speaker
- : Signed by President
- : Returned to House
- : Second reading, passed, yeas 47 nays 0
- : Reported back, do pass, place on calendar 5 0 0
- : Committee Hearing 09:30
- : Introduced, first reading, referred Industry and Business Committee
Votes
- Final Passage (March 12, 2025): 47 yea, 0 nay, passed
- Final Passage (January 21, 2025): 87 yea, 0 nay, passed
Common questions
- What is HB1153?
- HB1153 is a bill in the North Dakota Legislature (69th Legislative Assembly): AN ACT to amend and reenact subsection 7 of section 49-23-01 of the North Dakota Century Code, relating to the one-call excavation notice system.
- What does HB1153 do?
- In its own words: An act to amend and reenact subsection 7 of section 49-23-01 of the North Dakota Century Code, relating to the one-call excavation notice system.
- What is the status of HB1153?
- Signed into law as of March 25, 2025. Latest action: Filed with Secretary Of State 03/24 (March 25, 2025).
- Who sponsored HB1153?
- Jason Dockter (R, 7), with 4 co-sponsors.
- Where is the official record for HB1153?
- On the North Dakota Legislature website: https://ndlegis.gov/assembly/69-2025/regular/bill-overview/bo1153.html
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