Title 44, Offices and Officers

1. Except as provided in section 44-08-04.1, each elective or appointive officer, employee, representative, or agent of this state, or of any of its subdivisions, agencies, bureaus, boards, or commissions, may make claim for meals and lodging while engaged in the discharge of a p…

With the approval of the office of the budget, any state agency may adopt a per diem allowance in lieu of expenses as allowed by section 44-08-04 for its officials and employees whose official duties require that they remain on travel status away from their normal working and liv…

1. Any state agency shall advance at the request of the agency head for employees of that agency funds to be used for payment of meal and lodging expenses incurred while the official or employee is traveling on official business of this state, provided that such travel must be pl…

The head of any department, institution, or agency may authorize the payment of moving expenses incurred by a permanent employee who has been employed in that department, institution, or agency not less than one year when that employee is transferred from one city in the state to…

Any travel expense, including airline tickets and registration fees, that must be incurred more than five weeks in advance of approved travel to meet necessary deadlines or to obtain low rates, may be purchased by the state or any elected or appointed officer, employee, represent…

1. The office of management and budget shall seek to obtain sales tax exemptions for state employee travel lodging expense from all other states and the District of Columbia. If available from other states, the office of management and budget shall file exemption records, documen…

Any person who receives public funds for the discharge of a public duty in excess of the amounts allowed by law is, thirty days after a demand for a return of such excess amounts has been made by the attorney general, subject to a civil suit to be brought by the attorney general …

1. Any public officer or employee who has the power to approve a payment for travel expenses or any other expenditure of public funds shall determine before approving the payment: a. That the expenditure for travel or other expenditures were for lawful and official purposes. b. I…

Except as otherwise provided by law relating to notary stamps, upon every seal of a court or officer of this state required or authorized to have a seal, there must be engraved the words "State of North Dakota" and the name of the court or office in which the seal is to be used. …

All certificates of acknowledgment by notaries public on all documents filed for record with a recorder in the state, notwithstanding any defects or irregularities with the notary seal, are hereby validated, ratified, approved, and confirmed. Notwithstanding section 44-08-06, all…

When any court of record is unprovided with a seal, the judge thereof may authorize the use of any temporary seal, or of any device by way of seal, until a permanent seal is provided.

The clerk of the supreme court, the clerk of each district court, sheriff, or recorder, in all cases, may require the party for whom any service is to be rendered to pay the fees in advance of service, or to give security for the costs of service, to be approved by the officer.

The state or any political subdivision of the state must furnish legal counsel to defend any law enforcement officer in any action brought against such officer to recover damages arising out of any act of such officer in good faith and in the performance of the officer's official…

As used in sections 44-08-12 through 44-08-14: 1. "Authorized officer" means any official of this state or any of its departments, agencies, public bodies, or other instrumentalities or any of its political subdivisions whose signature to a lease issued by the board of university…

Any authorized officer, after filing with the secretary of state or, in the case of officers of any city, county, school district, or other political subdivision, with the clerk or business manager of such subdivision, the officer's manual signature certified to under oath, may e…

When the seal of this state or any of its departments, agencies, public bodies, or other instrumentalities or of any of its political subdivisions is required in the execution of a public security or instrument of payment, the authorized officer may cause the seal to be printed, …

As used in section 44-08-17, "law enforcement officer" means any sheriff, sheriff's deputy, police chief, policeman, fireman, and any investigator or detective employed by a political subdivision on a salaried basis to perform police duties.

Any political subdivision may purchase insurance on the life of a law enforcement officer employed by that political subdivision. Such insurance policy must be purchased from an insurance company licensed to do business in this state. If the insurance is purchased, the officer in…

Every elected and appointed state official and all state employees employed by or administering any agency, department, board, commission, or other governmental organization with offices located in the state capitol building are responsible for the safekeeping and return of keys …

1. No public employee may engage in political activities while on duty or in uniform. Although nothing in this section prevents any such employee from becoming or continuing to be a member or officer of a political club or organization, from attendance at a political meeting, fro…

Peace officers employed by a law enforcement agency within the state have the power of a peace officer in the following circumstances: 1. To enforce state laws and rules within the jurisdiction of the law enforcement agency by which they are employed. 2. To assist during the nece…

Every applicant for a position as a law enforcement officer for any state or political subdivision agency must be asked in any written application for that position whether that applicant has ever pled or been found guilty of a felony including a felony charge that was later dism…

1. An elected official of a political subdivision, except a township officer, an individual serving as a member of a governing body of a city, park district, or as a member of a school board subject to recall under section 44-08-21.1, or an official subject to recall under sectio…

1. An individual serving as a member of a governing body of a city, park district, or school board is subject to recall by petition of electors equal in number to thirty-five percent of the voters who voted in the most recent election that the member sought to be recalled was on …

A state entity or any political subdivision of this state may not purchase a flag of the United States of America unless the flag was manufactured in the United States of America. This section does not apply to the purchase of an item that is not a flag but which portrays a liken…

Notwithstanding any other provision of law, the governing body of a political subdivision may remove from office any individual the governing body has appointed to any office, board, or commission, for misconduct, malfeasance, crime in office, or neglect of duty or for habitual d…

1. Any appointive or elective agency or office of peace officers, as defined in section 12-63-01, may establish policies and enter agreements with other agencies and offices and a state or local criminal justice agency of this state may establish policies and procedures or enter …

1. Notwithstanding any other provision of law, the state, a political subdivision, or institution of higher education under the supervision of the state board of higher education or any agent or employee of the state, a political subdivision, or the institution of higher educatio…