N.D. Cent. Code § 24-06-05: Overseer responsible for machinery

Each overseer of highways is responsible personally for the proper use and care of all implements while in the overseer's charge, or in use in the overseer's district, and any overseer of highways, or other person who, through negligence or willfully injures or damages such implements or permits them to be injured, is liable for such damage to the township, in an action to be brought by the chairman of the board of township supervisors in the township or any adjoining township.