North Dakota Century Code Title 57. Taxation § 57-51-11. Lien for tax--Preservation of lien--Satisfaction of lien

1. The tax, penalty, and interest provided for in this chapter is, at all times, a first and paramount lien against the purchaser's or producer's property as the case may be, both real and personal. The provisions of this chapter making the purchaser liable to pay the tax and requiring the producer to pay the royalty owner's tax do not release the producer or purchaser from that liability. If the tax, penalty, and interest is not paid, it may be recovered at the suit of the state, upon relation to the commissioner, in any court of competent jurisdiction of the county where any such property, assets, and effects are located.

2. Any judgment creditor, or lien claimant acquiring any interest in, or lien on, any property situated in this state, prior to the commissioner filing in the central indexing system maintained by the secretary of state, a notice of the lien provided for in this section, takes free of, or has priority over, the lien. The commissioner shall index in the central indexing system the following data:

3. Upon the payment of tax, penalty, and interest, if applicable, or a penalty assessed under section 57-51-06, as to which the commissioner has indexed a notice in the central indexing system, the commissioner shall index a satisfaction of the lien in the central indexing system.

4. The commissioner is exempt from the payment of the fees otherwise provided for by law for the indexing of the lien or satisfaction.