§ 39-24-08 — Rules and regulations

Pursuant to this code and this chapter, rules for the regulation and use of snowmobiles must
be adopted as follows:
1. The director shall adopt rules for the registration of snowmobiles and display of
registration numbers.
2. The director has the authority in the interest of public health, welfare, and safety to
regulate, restrict, or prohibit, by rule, the operation of snowmobiles on those highways
under the director's jurisdiction. The director's authority to prohibit the use of
snowmobiles is limited to the roadways, shoulders, inslopes, and medians within the
right of way, except where such action is necessary to avoid an obstacle.
Notwithstanding the racing prohibitions in section 39-08-03.1, the director may, on a
case-by-case basis, permit organized and bona fide snowmobile races on the ditch
bottoms, backslopes, and the top of the backslopes of the highway rights of way under
the director's jurisdiction. The planning, organization, route selection, and safety
precautions of any such race are the sole responsibility of the permittee. It is expressly
provided that the director, and the department and the employees thereof, shall incur
no liability whatsoever for permitting such races.
3. The director of the parks and recreation department shall adopt rules for regulating
use of snowmobiles in state parks and other state-owned land under the supervision of
the director of the parks and recreation department.
4. The governing bodies of political subdivisions shall promulgate rules and regulations
for regulating use of snowmobiles in recreation and other appropriate areas under their
jurisdiction. The governing bodies of cities may, by ordinance, regulate, restrict, and
prohibit the use of snowmobiles when operated within the exclusive jurisdiction of
cities.