N.D. Cent. Code § 60-01-33: Baggage left at hotel or forwarded to hotel - Liability of hotelkeeper

Whenever a person allows the person's baggage or property to remain in a hotel after leaving the hotel as a guest, and after the relation of hotelkeeper and guest has ceased, or whenever a person forwards the person's baggage to a hotel before becoming a guest thereof, and the same is received in such hotel, the hotelkeeper may hold such baggage or property at the risk of the owner.