North Dakota Century Code Title 57. Taxation § 57-65-14. Lien for tax--Preservation of lien--Satisfaction of lien

1. The tax, penalty, and interest assessed under this chapter is, at all times, a first and paramount lien against the taxpayer's property, both real and personal. The provisions of this chapter requiring the taxpayer to pay the tax do not release the taxpayer from that liability. If the tax, penalty, and interest are not paid, the tax, penalty, and interest may be recovered at the suit of the state, upon relation to the tax 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, before the tax commissioner files 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 tax commissioner shall index in the central indexing system the following data:

3. Upon payment of tax, penalty, and interest, if applicable, or a penalty assessed under section 57-65-10, as to which the tax commissioner has indexed a notice in the central indexing system, the tax commissioner shall index a satisfaction of the lien in the central indexing system.

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