19.0435.01000
Sixty-sixth
Legislative Assembly HOUSE BILL NO. 1312
of North Dakota
Introduced by
Representatives Jones, Damschen, Fegley, Hatlestad, Kasper, Laning, Longmuir, Steiner
Senators Kannianen, Klein, J. Roers, Unruh
1 A BILL for an Act to amend and reenact section 35-24-01 of the North Dakota Century Code,
2 relating to definitions pertaining to a well or pipeline construction lien.
3 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATIVE ASSEMBLY OF NORTH DAKOTA:
4 SECTION 1. AMENDMENT. Section 35-24-01 of the North Dakota Century Code is
5 amended and reenacted as follows:
6 35-24-01. Definitions.
7 In this chapter unless the context or subject matter otherwise requires:
8 1. "Construction" means construction, maintenance, operation, or repair.
9 2. "Contract" means a contract, written or oral, express or implied, or partly express and
10 partly implied, or executory or executed, or partly executory and partly executed.
11 3. "Drilling" means drilling, digging, torpedoing, acidizing, cementing, completing, or
12 repairing.
13 4. "Furnish" means sell or rent.
14 5. "Labor" means work performed in return for wages.
15 6. "Material" means material, machinery, equipment, appliances, buildings, structures,
16 tools, bits, or supplies but, including gasoline, diesel fuel, propane, and lubricants.
17 "Material" does not include rigs or hoists or their integral component parts except wire
18 lines.
19 7. "Operating" means all operations in connection with or necessary to the development,
20 production, or reclamation of oil or gas.
21 8. "Original contractor" means any person for whose benefit a lien is prescribed under
22 section 35-24-02.
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1 9. "Owner" means a person holding any interest in the legal or equitable title or both to
2 any leasehold for oil or gas purposes, or any pipeline, or that person's agent, and
3 includes purchasers under executory contract, receivers, and trustees.
4 10. "Person" means an individual, corporation, limited liability company, firm, partnership,
5 or association.
6 11. "Pipeline" means any pipeline laid and designed as a means of transporting natural
7 gas, oil, or gasoline, or their components or derivatives, and the right of way therefor.
8 12. "Services" means work performed exclusive of labor, including the hauling of material,
9 whether or not involving the furnishing of material.
10 13. "Working interest" means interest in oil and gas that may be produced from a well but
11 does not include royalty or overriding royalty interests.
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Statutes affected:
INTRODUCED: 35-24-01
Enrollment: 35-24-01