# Title 24 — Highways, Bridges, and Ferries

## Chapter 24-12 — Miscellaneous Provisions

### § 24-12-01. Injuries to highways.

No person may willfully dig up, remove, displace, break, or otherwise injure or destroy any
public highway, right of way, or bridge, or any rest area, picnic area, or tourist camp, or
improvements thereon, operated in connection with a public highway, or any private way laid out
by authority of law, or any bridge upon such way without first securing permission from the
person or governing body having jurisdiction and control thereof.
### § 24-12-02. Obstructing highways.

No person may:
1. Obstruct any public highway in any manner with intent to prevent the free use thereof
by the public;
2. Willfully and knowingly obstruct or plow up, or cause to be obstructed or plowed up,
any public highway or right of way, except by order of the officials having jurisdiction
over such highway for the purpose of working or improving the same;
3. Build or place a barbed wire fence across any well-traveled trail which has been the
usual and common route of travel for not less than one year without placing on the
outside of the top tier of barbed wire on said fence a board, pole, or other suitable
protection, to be at least sixteen feet [4.88 meters] in length; or
4. Plow up a section line in a manner so as to obstruct usual travel on the section line.
### § 24-12-03. Garbage deposited on highways.

Repealed by S.L. 1991, ch. 277, § 21.
### § 24-12-04. Injury to mileboards, guideposts, traffic-control signals, signs, or markings.

No person may remove, injure, or destroy any mileboard, milestone, or guidepost,
traffic-control signals, signs, or markings, or any inscription thereon, erected or placed upon any
highway, road, or street by any public authority or by any contractor, subcontractor, or employee
engaged in construction activities pursuant to a contract with a public authority therefor.
### § 24-12-04.1. Rewards authorized.

The director or any political subdivision of this state is hereby authorized to offer a reward,
the amount of which must be determined by the director or the governing body of the political
subdivision not exceeding, however, the sum of three hundred dollars, for any information
leading to the conviction of any person or persons violating the provisions of this chapter.
### § 24-12-05. Penalties.

Any person who violates any provision of this title for which another penalty is not
specifically prescribed is guilty of a class B misdemeanor.
### § 24-12-06. Penalty for running tollgate.

Repealed by S.L. 1975, ch. 106, § 673.
