Section 52-04-12 - Civil action to collect contributions, interest, penalties, delinquency fees - Service on nonresident employers - Contribution liens - Certificates1. Collection process of the bureau shall also be by civil action for collection of any money owing to the bureau from any source and for whatever reason, inclusive of interest thereon, penalties and delinquency fees when there is provision for such additional assessments. Costs of the action allowed by statute must be added when judgment is awarded against the debtor, unless waived. When the debtor is a nonresident of this state and the claim for relief accrued subsequent to July 1, 1963, and prior to July 1, 1969, jurisdiction thereof by service of process must be governed by the provisions of this section as it appeared in chapter 334 of the 1963 North Dakota Session Laws and the Supplement to the North Dakota Century Code from July 1, 1963, to July 1, 1969, and when the claim for relief accrued subsequent to July 1, 1969, and prior to August 1, 1971, jurisdiction thereof by service of process must be governed by the provisions of chapter 293 of the 1969 North Dakota Session Laws and chapter 28-06.1 of the Supplement to the North Dakota Century Code, and when the claim for relief accrued subsequent to August 1, 1971, jurisdiction thereof by service of process must be governed by the amended provisions of rule 4 of the North Dakota Rules of Civil Procedure adopted and promulgated by the supreme court under date of June 28, 1971.2. Whenever any employer, liable to pay contributions, interest, or penalty, fails to pay, the amount of contributions, interest, penalty, and costs that accrue is a lien in favor of the state upon all property and all rights to property belonging to the employer. The lien attaches at the time the contributions, interest, or penalty becomes due, and continues until the liability is satisfied. To preserve the lien against subsequent mortgages, purchasers for value and without notice of the lien, judgment creditors, and lienholders, job service North Dakota shall file a notice of lien utilizing one of these methods: a. In the central indexing system maintained by the secretary of state. Job service North Dakota shall index in the central indexing system the following data: (1) The name of the employer.(2) The name "job service North Dakota" as claimant.(3) The date and time the notice of lien was indexed.(4) The amount of the lien. The notice of lien is effective as of eight a.m. following the indexing of the notice. Job service North Dakota shall index any notice of lien without payment of a fee or cost to the secretary of state. Upon payment of contributions, interest, penalty, and costs, job service North Dakota shall index a satisfaction of the lien in the central indexing system without fees or costs.
b. With the recorder, in the county in which the property is located, a notice of the lien. The lien is effective from the time of filing of the notice. The recorder shall preserve the notice and endorse on it the day, hour, and minute when it was received. The recorder shall index the notice of lien in an appropriate index record and record the notice of lien in the manner provided for recording real estate mortgages. The recorder shall accept the notice of lien for filing without payment of a fee by job service North Dakota. Upon payment of the contributions, interest, penalty, and costs, job service North Dakota shall file with the recorder a satisfaction of the lien. The recorder shall enter the satisfaction on the notice of lien, index the satisfaction in an appropriate index record, and record the satisfaction in the manner provided for recording satisfactions of real estate mortgages. The recorder shall accept the satisfaction for filing without payment of a fee by job service North Dakota. In either method, the attorney general, upon request of job service North Dakota, may bring suit without bond, to foreclose the lien.
3. Whenever any employer, liable to pay contributions, interest, or penalty, fails to pay the same, job service North Dakota may file a certificate, specifying the amount of contributions, interest, and penalty due and the name of the liable employer, with the clerk of district court in any county. The clerk shall enter and docket the certificate in the same manner as a judgment that directs the payment of money. The certificate has the force and effect of a judgment of the district court. The certificate is a lien on all the real property, except the homestead, of every person named, which the person may have in any county in which the certificate is docketed at the time of docketing or which the person thereafter acquires in the county, for ten years from the time of docketing. The certificate may be renewed in the same manner and with the same effect as a judgment that directs the payment of money. Execution of the certificate is issuable in the same manner as provided for execution of judgments. Job service North Dakota may proceed by garnishment to enforce the certificate in the same manner as a creditor is entitled to proceed by garnishment to enforce a judgment. Upon payment of the contributions, interest, penalty, and costs, job service North Dakota shall file with the clerk of court a satisfaction of the certificate. The clerk shall discharge the record in the same manner as judgments.4. The foregoing remedies are cumulative and no action taken by job service North Dakota may be construed to be an election to pursue any remedy to the exclusion of any other remedy provided by law.Amended by S.L. 2013 , ch. 393( HB 1112 ), § 1, eff. 8/1/2013.