N.D. Cent. Code § 24-07-14
Whenever the board of county commissioners or the board of township supervisors shall lay out, alter, or discontinue any highway, it shall cause a survey thereof to be made when necessary, and it shall make out an accurate description of the highway so altered, discontinued, or laid out, and shall incorporate the same in an order to be signed by the members of such board, and shall cause such order, together with all the petitions and affidavits of service and posting of notices to be filed in the office of the county auditor, if by the board of county commissioners, and in the office of the township clerk, if by the board of township supervisors. The auditor or clerk shall note the time of filing the same. On the refusal of either board to lay out, alter, or discontinue a road, it shall note the fact on the back of the petition and file the same as aforesaid. All orders, petitions, and affidavits, together with the award of damages, must be made out and filed within five days after the date of the order for laying out, altering, or discontinuing a highway. But the county auditor or township clerk may not record such order within thirty days, nor until a final decision is had, and not then unless such order is confirmed. When the order, together with the award, has been recorded by the county auditor or township clerk, as the case may require, the same must be filed in the office of the county auditor. In case the board having jurisdiction fails to file such order within twenty days, it must be deemed to have decided against such application.
N.D.C.C. § 24-07-14