N.D. Cent. Code § 24-07-33

When any person acquires the title to government land over which any road has been or hereafter may be laid out, subsequent to the laying out of such road, the person so acquiring such title, within three months after the receipt of the person's patent therefor, shall assert the person's claim for damages in the manner provided in this chapter in case of locating highways, and such roads must remain and be public highways, but the person's damages, if any, must be paid, and in case of a failure to assert the person's claim for damages within the time aforesaid, the person thereafter is barred from asserting such claim.