North Dakota Century Code Title 20.1. Game, Fish, Predators, and Boating § 20.1-13-07. Prohibited operation--Penalty

a. The individual has an alcohol concentration of at least ten one-hundredths of one percent by weight at the time of the performance of the test within two hours after the operating of a motorboat or vessel.

b. The individual is under the influence of intoxicating liquor.

c. The individual is under the influence of a drug or substance or combination of drugs or substances to a degree which renders the individual incapable of safely operating a motorboat or vessel.

d. The individual is under the combined influence of alcohol and any other drugs or substances to a degree which renders that person incapable of safely operating a motorboat or vessel.

The fact that an individual charged with violating this section is or has been legally entitled to use alcohol or other drugs or substances is not a defense against a charge for violating this section, unless a drug that predominantly caused impairment was used only as directed or cautioned by a practitioner who legally prescribed or dispensed the drug to the individual.

a. Without each person on board the personal watercraft wearing a United States coast guard approved type I, II, III, or V personal flotation device;

b. Within one hundred feet [30.48 meters] of a person fishing from a shoreline, swimmer, swimming diving raft, or an occupied, anchored or nonmotorized vessel at greater than slow or no wake speed;

c. While towing an individual on water skis, a kneeboard, an inflatable craft, or any other device unless an observer is on board or the personal watercraft is equipped with a mirror on each side which provides the operator an unobstructed field of vision to the rear;

d. Without a lanyard-type engine cutoff switch being attached to the individual, clothing, or personal flotation device of the operator, if the personal watercraft is equipped by the manufacturer with such a device;

e. If a part of the spring-loaded throttle mechanism has been removed, altered, or tampered with so as to interfere with the return-to-idle system;

f. To chase or harass wildlife;

g. Through emergent or floating vegetation at other than slow or no wake speed;

h. In a manner that unreasonably or unnecessarily endangers life, limb, or property, including weaving through congested watercraft traffic, jumping the wake of another watercraft within one hundred feet [30.48 meters] of the other watercraft; or

i. In any other manner that is not reasonable and prudent.