§ 40-05-05 — Cities may contract for electrical energy or gas

North Dakota § 40-05-05

• Jurisdiction: North Dakota
• Title 40: Municipal Government
• Ch. 40-05: Powers of Municipalities

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The governing body of any city may enter into a contract with any person, partnership,
association, corporation, limited liability company, or the United States or any department or
agency thereof to provide for:
1. The furnishing of electrical energy or gas to the inhabitants of the city and to the city
for all purposes; or
2. The sale to and the purchase by the city for a term of not to exceed ten years, of
electrical energy or gas required for city purposes.
The making and execution of any such contract must be authorized by a resolution of the
governing body adopted by a majority of the members thereof at a regularly assembled meeting
of such body. Nothing contained in this section shall deprive the public service commission of
any of its regulatory powers with reference to contract rates.

40-05-06. City fines and penalties limited.
1. Except as provided in subsections 2 and 3, the fine or penalty for the violation of any
ordinance, resolution, or regulation of a city may not exceed one thousand five
hundred dollars, and the imprisonment may not exceed thirty days for one offense.
2. For every violation of a city ordinance that regulates the operation or equipment of a
motor vehicle or which regulates traffic, except those ordinances listed in section
39-06.1-05, a fee may be established, by ordinance, which may exceed, by up to one
hundred percent, the limit, for an equivalent category of violation, set forth in section
39-06.1-06 except for a violation of a speed limitation.
3. For every violation of a city ordinance enforcing the requirements of title 40, Code of
Federal Regulations, section 403 relating to publicly owned treatment works, or
prohibiting shoplifting, vandalism, criminal mischief, or malicious mischief, the penalty
may not exceed a fine of one thousand five hundred dollars, imprisonment for thirty
days, or both such fine and imprisonment.
4. This section does not prohibit the use of the sentencing alternatives, other than a fine
or imprisonment, provided by section 12.1-32-02 for the violation of a city ordinance,
nor does this section limit the use of deferred or suspended sentences under
subsections 3 and 4 of section 12.1-32-02.