Title 54, State Government

Except as otherwise provided, moneys may be paid from the state treasury only upon the warrant or order prepared by the office of management and budget drawn on the state treasurer. The director of the office of management and budget shall recommend a form for order and warrant-c…

Unless otherwise authorized as provided in this section, seventy-five percent of the appropriations made by the legislative assembly for the line items of salaries and wages and operating expenses for any state institution, department, board, commission, or bureau in the executiv…

The office of management and budget shall keep a record showing: 1. The total amount appropriated for maintenance for each state officer or agency, and of each separate item thereof. 2. The amount equal to seventy-five and twenty-five percent of the total appropriated and each se…

The administrative department, office, or board of any penal or charitable state institution, or the state board of higher education, or any person thereof, in the transaction of the business of any state institution under its direction or control, may not make nor authorize know…

Any person violating the provisions of section 54-27-12 is guilty of a class B misdemeanor, and is, upon conviction, subject to summary removal from office by the governor, except elected officials who shall be subject to impeachment.

The state treasurer, at the beginning of each fiscal year, shall prepare a list of the checks, warrants, and warrant-checks drawn on various depositories which are more than two years old which remain outstanding and unpaid and shall show the number, date, payee, with address of …

No officer, nor the head of any board, bureau, commission, institution, or industry of the state, except the Bank of North Dakota, may buy, sell, exchange, or in any manner acquire or dispose of any stocks, bonds, certificates of indebtedness, notes, mortgages, or other evidence …

Any officer, or the head of any board, bureau, commission, department, institution, or industry of the state violating any of the provisions of section 54-27-16, is guilty of a class B misdemeanor.

The state is a preferred creditor in all cases of payments due to the state under any contracts.

A highway tax distribution fund is created as a special fund in the state treasury into which must be deposited the moneys available by law from collections of motor vehicle registration and related fees, fuels taxes, special fuels taxes, use taxes, and special fuels excise taxes…

The state treasurer shall no less than quarterly allocate and distribute all moneys in the township highway aid fund to the counties of the state based on the length of township roads in each county compared to the length of all township roads in the state. To receive any funds u…

Before the tenth day of each month, each governing body of an Indian reservation having a motor vehicle registration ordinance may report the number of motor vehicles registered on the reservation to the director of the department of transportation. The director of the department…

A revenue sharing trust fund is hereby created in the state treasury for deposit of all payments received by the state under the Fiscal Assistance to State and Local Governments Act (federal-state revenue sharing) [Pub. L. 92-512; 86 Stat. 919] and acts amendatory thereto. Intere…

Funds must be made available to all state agencies, institutions, and departments from a preliminary planning revolving fund in the state treasury under the control of the director of the office of management and budget for studies, planning, architectural programming, schematic …

In order to effectively meet the cyclical cash flow needs of state government, the office of management and budget upon approval of the emergency commission is hereby authorized to issue certificates in anticipation of revenue, notes, or bonds, to special funds on deposit in the …

Each office, agency, or institution that must deposit funds collected in the general fund shall pay refunds from the general fund. The office of management and budget shall establish accounting requirements for paying refunds from the general fund in accordance with the central a…

There is created in the state treasury a tobacco settlement trust fund. The fund consists of the tobacco settlement dollars obtained by the state under subsection IX(c)(1) of the master settlement agreement and consent agreement adopted by the east central judicial district court…

Each county, city, and township shall provide to the tax commissioner an annual report on funding and expenditures relating to transportation projects and programs. The report must be provided within ninety days after the close of a calendar year. The report must contain by fund …

Each state agency, excluding entities under the control of the state board of higher education, shall report to the office of management and budget before applying for a federal grant for which the agency may receive estimated funding of twenty-five thousand dollars or more. The …

1. Biennially, each executive branch state agency, excluding entities under the control of the state board of higher education, receiving federal funds, shall report to the office of management and budget a plan to operate the state agency when federal funds are reduced by five p…

Each state agency, excluding entities under the control of the state board of higher education, prior to applying for or accepting federal grant funds, shall: 1. Consider the federal requirements that the state must comply with as a condition of receipt of the federal funds; 2. D…

Unless otherwise directed, interest earned on moneys remaining in a fund which has been closed must be credited to the general fund.

Unless otherwise provided by this code, the effective date for federal decennial census data on any population-based tax distributions made by the state treasurer is July first following the release of the federal decennial census data.

1. For the purposes of section 24 of article X of the Constitution of North Dakota: a. "Education-related purposes" means purposes related to public elementary and secondary education. b. "State aid to school districts" means: (1) The general fund appropriations to the department…

Eighty percent of any funds received by the state under the consent judgment adopted by the south central judicial district court in its consent judgment entered December 8, 2022, [Civil No. 08-2022-CV-02972] in State of North Dakota, ex rel. Drew H. Wrigley v. JUUL Labs, Inc., m…

1. There is created in the state treasury the legacy earnings fund. The fund consists of all moneys distributed by the state treasurer from the legacy fund pursuant to section 26 of article X of the Constitution of North Dakota. The distribution from the legacy fund on July first…

There is created in the state treasury the legacy property tax relief fund. The fund consists of all moneys allocated to the fund under section 54-27-32 and all moneys transferred to the fund by the legislative assembly.