Whenever required the office of management and budget shall submit its books, accounts, and vouchers to the inspection of the legislative assembly, or any committee thereof authorized to request such documents.
54-44-11. Office's operating funds creation - Continuing appropriation. (Retroactive application - See note) 1. The office of management and budget shall establish a state purchasing operating fund to be used for the procurement and maintenance of an inventory of equipment and supplies for the state departments and agencies. Funds in the state purchasing operating fund are appropriated on a continuing basis and may be spent by the office of management and budget for the procurement and maintenance of an inventory of equipment and supplies as provided in this subsection. The director of the office of management and budget shall transfer any unobligated balance in the fund, in excess of one hundred twenty-five thousand dollars, to the state general fund at the end of each fiscal year. 2. The office of management and budget shall establish a state printing operating fund to be used for the procurement and maintenance of an inventory of printing equipment and supplies for the state departments and agencies. 3. The office of management and budget shall establish a state personnel training and development operating fund to be used for the coordination of employee training and career development data, supplies, equipment, and services and for providing or arranging necessary training and development programs to state departments and agencies. Funds in the state personnel training and development operating fund are appropriated on a continuing basis to the office of management and budget and may be spent for the purposes identified in this subsection. Any surplus in this fund in excess of one hundred thousand dollars on June thirtieth of each year must be transferred to the state general fund. 4. Each office, agency, or institution provided with printing or personnel training services, unless exempted by law, shall pay to the office of management and budget a proportionate share of the cost of such service as determined by the director of the office of management and budget, based on actual costs and actual usage. The amounts paid to the office of management and budget by the various offices, agencies, and institutions must be deposited in the appropriate operating fund and must be expended in accordance with legislative appropriations. 5. The office of management and budget shall establish a facility management operating fund to be used for the salary and operating expenses of the division of facility management. Rental fees collected pursuant to section 54-21-19 must be deposited in the fund. The director of the office of management and budget shall transfer any unobligated balance in the fund to the general fund at the end of each fiscal year.
54-44-12. Deposit and disbursement of funds of occupational and professional boards - Appropriation. All occupational and professional boards, associations, and commissions created by law shall deposit all fees and other moneys received in any bank selected by the majority vote of the governing body of the board, association, or commission. Checks may be drawn against the bank account, opened pursuant to this section, for the authorized expenditures of the board, association, or commission on the signature or signatures of the person or persons authorized to so act by the governing body. All moneys in accounts opened pursuant to this section are hereby appropriated for the use of the occupational or professional board, association, or commission opening the account.
54-44-13. Failure of political subdivisions to repay natural disaster overpayments - Office of management and budget authorized to withhold funds. Whenever an overpayment made to any state political subdivision under the Disaster Relief Act of 1970 [Pub. L. 91-606; 84 Stat. 1744], and all acts amendatory and supplemental thereto, is not repaid by the following July first, the state office of management and budget shall: 1. Upon certification from the governor's natural disaster representative that a political subdivision is delinquent in repaying such overpayment, withhold all funds, grants-in-aid, tax shares, and other similar moneys due the subdivision from the state until the subdivision repays either the federal or state government. 2. Cease to withhold funds when the governor's natural disaster representative certifies that the subdivision has repaid the overpayment.
54-44-14. Director may sell, lease, exchange, or transfer title or use to all or part of the san haven properties. The director of the office of management and budget, with the approval of the governor, is authorized to sell, lease, exchange, or transfer title or use of any part or all of the san haven facilities and properties, located in sections nineteen, twenty-nine, and thirty, township one hundred sixty-two north, range seventy-two west, located in Rolette County, North Dakota, to the federal government or any public or private agency, organization, or business enterprise or any worthy undertaking, under the following provisions: 1. The transaction is exempt from the provisions of sections 54-01-05.2 and 54-01-05.5. 2. All required legal documents, papers, and instruments in any transaction must be reviewed and approved as to form and legality by the attorney general. 3. Any funds realized by any transaction must be deposited in the state's general fund.
54-44-15. Reimbursement from institutions of higher education for state's share of default costs. 1. If the state is required to pay a fee to the United States secretary of education to offset the secretary's default costs relating to an institution of higher education located in North Dakota with a cohort default rate exceeding twenty percent for the most recent fiscal year for which rates are calculated, the director of the office of management and budget, or the director's designee, shall: a. Provide notice by certified mail to each institution of higher education in this state that participates in the federal family education loan program or the federal direct student loan program, under title IV of the Higher Education Act of 1965 [Pub. L. 89-329; 79 Stat. 1245; 20 U.S.C. 1070 et seq.] of any assessment necessary to reimburse the state for the institution's proportionate share of any fee charged to the state by the secretary of education under the Higher Education Act of 1965 [Pub. L. 89-329; 79 Stat. 1230; 20 U.S.C. 1001 et seq.]. b. The amount of reimbursement due from any institution must be based upon a fee structure approved by the United States secretary of education which has been provided to the director of the office of management and budget by the student loan guarantee agency. The student loan guarantee agency shall submit the fee structure to the director of the office of management and budget prior to
implementation. The fee charged must be determined based upon the fee structure established by the student loan guarantee agency and must be based on the institution's cohort default rate and the state's risk of loss as provided by section 4201 of the Omnibus Budget Reconciliation Act of 1993 [Pub. L. 103-66; 107 Stat. 370; 20 U.S.C. 1078(n)]. 2. The student loan guarantee agency may adopt rules to implement this section. The rules may provide for a process and standards to exempt an institution from reimbursement or allow an adjustment of the required reimbursement if the institution demonstrates that exceptional mitigating circumstances contributed to the cohort default rate. Prior to implementing any exemption process and standards, the student loan guarantee agency shall obtain comments on the exemption process and standards from the director of the office of management and budget. Chapter 28-32 does not apply to rules adopted under this section. 3. If any institution fails to reimburse the office of management and budget within sixty days of receiving an assessment under subsection 1, the amount of the assessment plus interest on the assessment at the rate of nine percent from the date of receipt of the assessment and reasonable collection costs, including attorney's fees, constitutes a lien against all assets of the institution. The lien has priority over all other liens and encumbrances acquired after the date the institution was notified of the required reimbursement by the office of management and budget. The state may enforce any lien created under this subsection against real property in the manner provided in chapter 35-22, against personal property in the manner provided in chapter 32-20, or against the owner of any institution by garnishment in the manner provided in chapter 32-09.1, except that the restrictions of subsection 1 of section 32-09.1-03 do not apply to a garnishment commenced to collect an assessment established under this section.