Title 21 — Governmental Finance

In this chapter, unless the context or subject matter otherwise requires: 1. "Board" means the governing board of any public corporation, including the board of county commissioners, the city council, the board of city commissioners, the school board, the board of township superv…

Public funds belonging to or in the custody of the state must be deposited in the Bank of North Dakota.

Public funds belonging to or in the custody of any public corporation must be deposited in the Bank of North Dakota or in financial institutions which have been duly designated as depositories in the manner prescribed in this chapter.

The treasurer of a public corporation and every other person legally charged with the custody of public funds, which, according to the provisions of this chapter, must be deposited in the Bank of North Dakota or in a depository duly designated as provided in this chapter, promptl…

Any financial institution duly incorporated in this state under and pursuant to the laws governing the incorporation of financial institutions, and any financial institution situated and doing business within this state, and the Bank of North Dakota, may be designated a depositor…

In no case may the amount of county funds deposited by the board of county commissioners in any one financial institution exceed the combined capital and surplus of such financial institution. In a county where the deposits to be made by the board of county commissioners of count…

Except as is otherwise provided in sections 21-04-16 and 21-04-17, and before any deposit is made in any depository other than the Bank of North Dakota, by or in behalf of any public corporation, such depository shall furnish a bond payable to the public corporation making such d…

The treasurer of a public corporation and every other individual legally charged with the custody of public funds may accept from any financial institution, as security for repayment of deposits, a pledge of securities in lieu of a personal or surety bond. When securities are ple…

Repealed by S.L. 2017, ch. 182, § 2.

Whenever any depository financial institution desires to terminate the liability for any deposits of any public corporation for which such depository has given a bond or pledged assets for the repayment, it shall notify the board of the public corporation affected of such desire.…

The governing board of any public corporation, except the board of supervisors of any township and the school board of any common school district, at its regular meeting in January of each even-numbered year, shall assemble and examine all outstanding bonds and require new bonds …

A proposal for deposit must be sealed and delivered to the clerk and must have attached to it a statement showing the financial condition of the financial institution at that time and as disclosed in the several statements of financial condition made during the last preceding twe…

Whenever it appears that a bank designated by a public corporation as depository of its funds has complied with the provisions of the act of Congress relating to the guaranty of deposits in state and national banks, no bond may be required of said bank to secure the deposits of a…

If at any time it appears that the benefit of the federal act guarantying deposits in financial institutions has been withdrawn or is about to be withdrawn from the financial institution in which any public funds are deposited, the board having control of or supervision over such…

Depositories of public funds in this state shall pay substantially the same rate of interest or dividend thereon as such financial institutions pay upon individual deposits.

Each depository shall: 1. Furnish on the first day of each month to the public corporation, the state, or state institution, to the credit of which the deposit is held, an itemized statement of the amount in such deposit subject to check. Such statement must be verified whenever …

Repealed by S.L. 1967, ch. 193, § 1.

This chapter does not apply to a public corporation unless the amount in the treasury of such corporation equals or exceeds the sum of five hundred dollars. The board of a public corporation having on hand less than five hundred dollars, and therefore not within the provisions of…

To the extent that public funds are deposited as provided in this chapter, the legal custodian thereof, and the sureties on the legal custodian's bond, are exempt from all liability by reason of loss of any such funds from failure or other act of any such depository.

Any person violating any of the provisions of this chapter is guilty of a class A misdemeanor.

Any board, commission, bureau, or individual having the legal custody of any public funds that do not expressly or by name come within the provisions of the preceding sections of this chapter, nevertheless must be governed by the provisions of this chapter. They shall deposit suc…