North Dakota Adoption Laws, Page 8

Use of Advertising and Facilitators in Adoptive Placements

Statute: §§ 23-16-08; 50-11-06; 50-19-11

No hospital providing maternity care may in any way advertise that it will give children for adoption or hold itself out, directly or indirectly, as being able to dispose of children; however, such hospitals may inform an unmarried mother of child-placing agencies licensed by the Department of Human Services.
No facility licensed under this chapter [to provide foster care] may advertise children for adoption, or be held out directly or indirectly, as being able to dispose of children, without first being licensed so to do under chapter 50-12.
No maternity home for unmarried mothers licensed under the provisions of this chapter may in any way advertise that it will give children for adoption, or hold itself out, directly or indirectly, as being able to dispose of children, but may inform an unmarried mother of licensed child-placing agencies.