N.D. Cent. Code § 43-03-23: Liability for contractor's fault - Liability for own negligence

An architect or a landscape architect is not liable for the safety of persons or property on or about a construction project site, or for the construction techniques, procedures, sequences and schedules or for the conduct, action, errors, or omissions of any construction contractor, subcontractor, or material supplier, their agents or their employees, unless the architect or landscape architect assumes responsibility therefor by contract or by the architect's or landscape architect's actual conduct. This section does not relieve an architect or a landscape architect from liability from the architect's or landscape architect's negligence, whether in the architect's or landscape architect's design work or otherwise.