Any county or municipality within this state desiring to assist in the construction, maintenance, or repair of a bridge over a navigable river, regardless of whether such county or municipality borders the river at the point where the bridge is to be built, by a majority vote of its board or governing body:

Terms Used In North Dakota Code 24-08-10

  • Appropriation: The provision of funds, through an annual appropriations act or a permanent law, for federal agencies to make payments out of the Treasury for specified purposes. The formal federal spending process consists of two sequential steps: authorization
  • State: when applied to the different parts of the United States, includes the District of Columbia and the territories. See North Dakota Code 1-01-49

1.    May enter into an agreement for the construction, maintenance, and repair of such a bridge with other municipalities or counties, whether such municipalities or counties are located within the state of North Dakota or a state bordering North Dakota; and

2.    May appropriate any sum that to the said board or governing body may seem reasonable and shall direct the proper officer to draw a warrant on the general fund for the payment of such appropriation.

Bridges constructed pursuant to this section may not be required to comply with the provisions of sections 24-08-01 and 24-08-05, except that bridges constructed entirely within the state of North Dakota must comply with the bidding requirements of section 24-08-01.