The provisions of section 38-09-11 authorize the board of county commissioners to include in the lease and to carry out any provision which any individual owner could include or carry out except that the board of county commissioners may not: 1. Enter into any of the lines of business mentioned in such section. 2. Expend or bind the county to the expenditure, by contract or otherwise, of any moneys or property.
38-09-13. Disposition of moneys collected by counties and political subdivisions on mining, oil, and gas leases. All moneys received by any county from mining, oil, or gas lease and from royalties on any such lease must be paid to the county treasurer. Such amounts must be allocated to the state and county, and to any city, township, school district, or other taxing subdivision which has levied any tax thereon, in the proportions which the tax interests of the state, county, and other taxing subdivisions respectively bear to the tax charges to which the moneys are applicable. Moneys derived by the county from lands which are not subject to any tax charge must be paid into the general fund of the county. Moneys received by any township, city, school district, or park district under the provisions of this chapter other than for credit upon taxes must be placed in the general fund of the taxing subdivision receiving the same.
38-09-14. Public lands - Leasing for exploration and for production of oil and gas - Method. No lands, owned in whole or in part, or on which a reservation of oil and gas rights has been made in a conveyance thereof, by the state of North Dakota or by any department or agency thereof or by any county or other political subdivision of this state, may be leased for oil and gas exploration or production except as provided for in sections 38-09-14 through 38-09-20.