The following projects do not require a permit:
1. Boat docks, if all of the following conditions are satisfied:
a. They are constructed, operated, and maintained by the riparian owner for personal use;
- b. The dock is used only for embarkation, debarkation, moorage of watercraft, water intakes, or recreation;
- c. Only clean, nonpolluting materials are used;
- d. The total length of the dock over the surface of the water does not exceed twenty-five feet [7.6 meters] on a river or fifty feet [15.24 meters] on a lake, and there is no unreasonable interference with navigation or access to an adjacent riparian owner's property;
- e. The dock is connected to a point above the ordinary high watermark by a boardwalk that does not exceed twenty-five feet [7.6 meters] in length and is removed from below the ordinary high watermark each fall; and
- f. Upon abandonment, the grantee dock owner shall restore the bank as closely as practicable to its original condition.1. 2. Water intakes, if all of the following conditions are satisfied:
- a. They are constructed, operated, and maintained by the riparian owner for domestic use; and
- b. The intake is removed from below the ordinary high watermark each fall.
2. 3. Watercraft that are temporarily moored.
3. 4. Snagging and clearing, if performed by a federal or state entity or political subdivision.
History: Effective November 1, 1989; amended effective August 1, 1994; April 1, 2009; April 1, 2010; July 1, 2014; April 1, 2026.
General Authority: NDCC 61-03-13
Law Implemented: NDCC 61-33-02, 61-33-05