Title 54, State Government

The office of management and budget shall arrange to deposit with the state library eight copies of all publications issued by all executive, legislative, and judicial agencies of state government intended for general public distribution. These publications must be provided to th…

The fiscal year for the state of North Dakota commences on the first day of July and ends on the thirtieth day of June of the following year. All reports required annually or biennially of any state officer or from any private corporation or limited liability company, unless othe…

All funds collected by or in the hands of the treasurer of any county in this state must be remitted promptly by the county treasurer in the manner provided by law, without expense to the state, and at the risk of the county treasurer. The county treasurer must be allowed actual …

The county treasurer, as an agent of the state, shall, on or before the fifteenth of each month, transmit in full to the state treasurer all state taxes collected in the previous month together with a report thereon. The original report must be forwarded with the remittance to th…

The apportionment of all moneys paid into the state treasury, any part of which is required by law to be paid to the several counties or to political subdivisions, must be made by the office of management and budget and state treasurer. The office of management and budget and sta…

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.

All state bonds issued under the provisions of this title are payable at a place or places specified in the resolution or other related documents of the industrial commission.

Any bonds issued by the state and the interest coupons accompanying them, if any, must be canceled and destroyed according to the provisions of the resolution or other related documents of the industrial commission.

Within thirty days after the destruction of bonds issued by the state and the coupons accompanying them, if any, there must be filed in the office of the industrial commission, there to be kept on file with the resolution or other related documents to which it refers, a certifica…

An issue of bonds of the state of North Dakota, to be known as "bonds of North Dakota, real estate series", is authorized and directed under the conditions and in the manner and for the purposes set forth in this chapter. Such issue of bonds is authorized for the purpose of makin…

Whenever first mortgages upon real estate are held by the Bank of North Dakota securing a total amount of unpaid mortgage loans in the sum of at least one hundred thousand dollars, the industrial commission may cause such mortgages, or such of them as it shall think proper, but n…

Upon receiving the assignments provided for in section 54-30-02, the state treasurer shall notify the governor, the state auditor, and the secretary of state, each of whom immediately shall inspect them or cause them to be inspected. Thereupon, the state treasurer immediately sha…

Each issue of bonds must be designated by series figure or figures, or by series letter or letters, or by a combination of both figures and letters, and such designation must be different from that of every other issue. All mortgages securing the bond issues must be given a serie…

The bonds issued under this chapter must be payable in not more than thirty years from the date of issue. The terms of the bonds as to denominations, period of maturity, and rate of interest must be fixed by the commission.

The principal and interest of bonds issued under this chapter must be payable at or by the office of the state treasurer in Bismarck, or at or by a bank or trust company designated in accordance with section 54-30-16. Each bond and coupon must be presented at the office where the…

In furtherance of the purposes of this chapter, the governor and the state treasurer, after the issue, execution, sealing, and attestation of bonds, shall deliver them to the industrial commission, in such denominations and amounts, bearing interest at such rates, and running to …

The industrial commission, in connection with and in addition to its other powers and duties, shall act as the agent of the state for the negotiation, sale, and delivery of the bonds issued under the provisions of this chapter. It shall sell them at not less than ninety-eight per…

Upon the delivery of bonds purchased and paid for under the provisions of this chapter, the faith and credit of the state of North Dakota is pledged for the payment thereof, both principal and interest, to the lawful holder and owner thereof, upon presentment for payment.

After the Bank, under this chapter, has assigned any mortgage, and the obligation thereby secured, all payments thereon must be made to the Bank in trust for: 1. The security and payment of bonds to be issued as provided in this chapter; and 2. Delivery to the general fund of the…

The Bank shall certify to the state treasurer, from time to time, a list of obligations and mortgages delivered to the state treasurer under this chapter showing the payments made and amounts remaining unpaid.