Bounce house rules in North Dakota: permits, inspection, and insurance
Local-only. Affidavits are filed with the city or county.
Informational only. Informational only, not legal advice. Amusement-device rules change between legislative sessions, and several of the entries here record changes made in the last three years. The binding authority is the agency named on this page. Confirm the current rule with them before you set up.
Reviewed August 2026
Binding authority: the city or county where the event is held
Who regulates inflatables in North Dakota
No state agency was identified. Ask the city or county where the event is held.
We could not confirm a statute or rule that governs inflatables here. Ask the city or county where the event is held.
Permit or registration
No state permit was found. The owner or operator must file an affidavit with the city or county stating that the ride has been inspected by a qualified inspector of an insurance underwriter.
We could not confirm the statutory cite. A third-party summary names a title of the North Dakota Century Code but the precise chapter was not verified, so we are not printing a section number. Ask the city or county where the event is held.
Inspection
No frequency is stated in the law. The inspection that the affidavit attests to is an insurance-underwriter inspection rather than a state one.
Insurance required by the state
No state minimum was found. The affidavit mechanism presupposes an insurer.
We could not confirm whether any minimum figure applies. Ask the city or county where the event is held.
Operator requirements
No state operator standard was found.
We could not confirm whether the state sets operator or attendant standards. Ask the city or county where the event is held.
What an operator should know
North Dakota law is reported to exclude inflatables expressly, alongside non-mechanized playground equipment, slides, trampolines and physical fitness devices, which would put bounce houses outside even the affidavit mechanism. No North Dakota state source was read, so both the exclusion and the affidavit rule rest on a third-party summary. The affidavit shape is worth understanding regardless, because it tells you who the real gatekeeper is: an insurance underwriter’s inspector, not a state one. Start with the city or county where the event is held.
Frequently asked questions
Does North Dakota require a bounce house permit?
No state permit was found. For covered rides the owner files an affidavit with the city or county attesting to an insurance underwriter’s inspection, and inflatables are reported to be excluded even from that.
Who inspects amusement rides in North Dakota?
A qualified inspector of an insurance underwriter, not a state inspector. There is no state office in this loop.
How reliable is this entry?
Moderately. No North Dakota state source was read; the affidavit mechanism and the inflatable exclusion both come from a third-party regulatory summary. Confirm with the county.
Sources
Every claim above traces to one of these. Where a source is marked as one we could not open, nothing on this page rests on it: it is listed so you can try it yourself.
What to do with this
Knowing the rule is the first half. These four pages are the second half: registering the business, buying the coverage the rule assumes you carry, running a setup that would survive an inspection, and putting the terms in writing before a unit leaves the truck.
Keep the paperwork with the unit
Permits, inspection dates and certificates belong next to the unit they cover, not in a folder. BounceDay keeps each unit’s record with its bookings, so the certificate a venue asks for is one tap away on the delivery. Your checklists are your own templates; the safety standards in them are yours, not ours.
Rules change between sessions. Confirm the current position with the city or county where the event is held before you set up.