North Dakota Century Code Title 21. Governmental Finance § 21-03-07. Election required--Exceptions

a. The portion of the total cost of the project to be paid by the municipality under the agreement, including all items of cost incurred directly by the municipality and all amounts to be paid by it for work done or contracted for by other parties to the agreement, may not exceed a sum equal to thirty percent of the total cost, including engineering and other incidental costs, of all construction and reconstruction work to be done plus fifty percent of the total cost of all right of way to be acquired in connection therewith.

b. The initial resolution authorizing issuance of bonds under this subsection must be published in the official newspaper of the municipality. Within sixty days after publication, an owner of taxable property within the municipality may file with the auditor or chief fiscal officer of the municipality a written protest against adoption of the resolution.

c. A protest must describe the property that is the subject of the protest. If the governing body finds protests have been signed by the owners of taxable property having an assessed valuation equal to five percent or more of the assessed valuation of all taxable property in the municipality, as most recently finally equalized, all further proceedings under the initial resolution are barred.

d. Nothing in this section may be deemed to prevent any municipality from appropriating funds for or financing out of taxes, special assessments, or utility revenues any work incidental to the project, in the manner and to the extent otherwise permitted by law, and the cost of any work so financed may not be included in computing the portion of the project cost payable by the municipality, within the meaning of this subsection, unless the work is actually called for by the agreement between the municipality and the other governmental agencies involved.

4. a. The governing body of any city may, by resolution adopted by a two-thirds vote, authorize and issue general obligation bonds of the city for the purpose of providing funds to pay the cost of any improvement of the types stated below, to the extent that the governing body determines that the cost should be paid by the city and should not be assessed upon property specially benefited thereby; provided that the initial resolution authorizing the bonds must be published in the official newspaper, and any owner of taxable property within the city may, within sixty days after the publication, file with the city auditor a protest against the adoption of the resolution. If the governing body finds the protests to have been signed by the owners of taxable property having an assessed valuation equal to five percent or more of the assessed valuation of all taxable property within the city, as last finally equalized, all further proceedings under the initial resolution are barred. This procedure is authorized for the financing of the following types of improvements:

b. This section may not be deemed to prevent a municipality from appropriating funds for or financing out of taxes, special assessments, or utility revenues any work incidental to an improvement, in the manner and to the extent otherwise permitted by law.

a. Protests must be in writing and must describe the property that is the subject of the protest.

b. If the governing body finds the protests to have been signed by the owners of taxable property having an assessed valuation equal to five percent or more of the assessed valuation of all taxable property within the city, as last finally equalized, all further proceedings under the initial resolution are barred.

a. Protests must be in writing and describe the property that is the subject of the protest.

b. If the governing body finds the protests to have been signed by the owners of taxable property having an assessed valuation equal to five percent or more of the assessed valuation of all taxable property within the county, as last finally equalized, all further proceedings under the initial resolution are barred.

a. The initial resolution authorizing the tax levy dedication and general obligation bonds must be published in the official newspaper of the school district, and any owner of taxable property within the school district may, within sixty days after publication, file with the business manager of the school district a protest against the adoption of the resolution.

b. Protests must be in writing and describe the property that is the subject of the protest.

c. If the governing body finds the protests have been signed by the owners of taxable property having an assessed valuation equal to five percent or more of the assessed valuation of all taxable property within the school district, as last finally equalized, all further proceedings under the initial resolution are barred.

a. The initial resolution authorizing the issuance of general obligation bonds under this subsection must be published in the official newspaper of the park district, and any owner of taxable property within the park district may, within sixty days after publication, file with the clerk of the park district a protest against the adoption of the resolution.

b. Protests must be in writing and describe the property that is the subject of the protest.

c. If the governing body finds the protests have been signed by the owners of taxable property having an assessed valuation equal to five percent or more of the assessed valuation of all taxable property within the park district, as last finally equalized, all further proceedings under the initial resolution are barred.