North Dakota 2025 2025-2026 Regular Session

North Dakota House Bill HB1405 Engrossed / Bill

Filed 01/31/2025

                    25.1119.04000
Sixty-ninth
Legislative Assembly
of North Dakota
Introduced by
Representatives VanWinkle, Bahl, Brandenburg, Dockter, D. Johnston, Morton, Grindberg, 
Henderson, Hauck
Senators Enget, Paulson, Wobbema
A BILL for an Act to create and enact a new section to chapter 28-01 of the North Dakota 
Century Code, relating to service of summons and time limitations for serving an answer to a 
claim.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATIVE ASSEMBLY OF NORTH DAKOTA:
SECTION 1. A new section to chapter 28-01 of the North Dakota Century Code is created 
and enacted as follows:
Service of summons - Answer - Time limitation.
1.A summons in a civil action served on an individual within the state must include a 
reference to a legal self-help program administered by the supreme court.
2.Notwithstanding any other provision of law, a defendant shall serve an answer to the 
complaint or to a cross-claim, or a reply to a counterclaim, within  	thirty days after 
service upon the pleading in which the claim is asserted.
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