N.D. Cent. Code § 58-02-19: Division of organized township - Requirements

A fractional township which contains more than eighteen sections of land and borders on a lake or river or any congressional township may be set off from the civil township of which it is a part if:

1.There are one hundred or more inhabitants residing in the proposed township; and

2.The division does not leave less than one hundred inhabitants residing in the township from which it is separated.