North Dakota Century Code Title 49. Public Utilities § 49-21.1-05. Exceptions

1. Construction, reconstruction, operation, or maintenance of any high voltage overhead conductor, supporting structure, or appurtenances for the support or operation of a high voltage conductor by persons authorized by the owner or operator.

2. Work on telecommunications, coaxial, signaling, and other communication circuits or their supporting structures, or other circuits and their supporting structures which are not high voltage.

3. The operation or maintenance of railroad equipment or vehicles on fixed rails or railroad right of way.

4. Work by any employee of an industrial plant on the electrical system of the plant.

5. Work by any employee of an electrical or communications contractor performed under the employer's supervision.

6. The operation of highway vehicles, agricultural equipment, or agricultural aircraft which in normal use may incidentally pass within the ten-foot [3.05-meter] clearance limitation.

7. Governmental entities responding to an emergency situation.

8. Work by any employee of a surface coal mining company in the course of coal mining activities.

9. The state and its agencies.