A state agency, department, or institution, except the institutions under the control and management of the board of higher education, may not obtain or use a postage meter unless authorized to do so by the director of the office of management and budget. Each state agency, department, or institution which is authorized by the director to obtain or use a postage meter shall maintain such records as the director may require and shall allow the director to inspect such records upon request. The office of management and budget shall keep a record of the identification numbers of all postage meters authorized for usage.
54-06-19. Appointive boards, commissions, committees, and councils - Gender balance. Appointments to boards, commissions, committees, and councils of the state established by this code, if not otherwise provided by law, should be gender balanced to the extent possible and to the extent that appointees are qualified to serve on those boards, commissions, committees, and councils. Any appointment in accordance with this section should be made in a manner that strives to seek gender balance based on the numbers of each gender belonging to the group from which appointments are made. Ex officio members are not to be included in determining gender balance under this section.
54-06-20. Indigent civil legal services fund - Distribution - Continuing appropriation - Records. 1. An advisory committee consisting of the lieutenant governor, the director of the office of management and budget or the director's designee, and the state court administrator shall distribute moneys deposited in the indigent civil legal services fund. Qualified legal service programs may apply for moneys in the fund. The moneys in the fund must be distributed to legal service programs operating in the state which
provide, with funds appropriated by the federal legal services corporation, legal services to persons unable to afford private counsel. Allocation of funds among the programs must be based on the population served by each program, the range of legal services offered, alternative sources of funding, and other factors deemed relevant by the advisory committee. The moneys deposited in the indigent civil legal services fund in the state treasury are hereby appropriated to the advisory committee on a continuing basis for the purpose of implementing and administering a program to provide civil legal assistance to indigent individuals. 2. Recipients of funds distributed by the advisory committee shall comply with the federal Legal Services Corporation Act [42 U.S.C. 2996 et seq.]. 3. Subject to the limitations in this section, funds distributed under subsection 1 may be used to provide legal services to persons unable to afford private counsel in the following types of cases: a. Public benefits, including temporary assistance to needy families, unemployment compensation, general assistance, the supplemental nutrition assistance program, supplemental security income, or social security disability income; b. Medical assistance; c. Family law matters; d. Housing; e. Consumer issues; and f. Elder law. 4. The advisory committee and each recipient of funds from the indigent civil legal services fund shall maintain records in accord with the generally accepted accounting principles. The records must account for the receipt and expenditure of all funds distributed and received and must be maintained for a period of five years from the close of the fiscal year in which the funds are distributed or received or until audited, whichever is sooner.