Title 54 — State Government

Each biennium, the legislative audit and fiscal review committee, in consultation with the state auditor, shall review updates to government auditing standards and develop guidelines for the contents of state agency audit reports. The legislative audit and fiscal review committee…

The legislative audit and fiscal review committee shall study and review audit reports as selected by the committee from those submitted by the state auditor, confer with the auditor and deputy auditors in regard to such reports, and when necessary, confer with representatives of…

1. During each interim, the employee benefits programs committee shall consider and report on the legislative proposals over which the committee takes jurisdiction and which fiscally impact the retirement programs of state employees or employees of any political subdivision, and …

The legislative management, during each biennium, shall appoint an administrative rules committee in the same manner as the legislative management appoints other interim committees. The legislative management shall designate the chairman of the committee. The committee shall oper…

1. The legislative management, during each biennium, shall appoint a water topics overview committee in the same manner as the legislative management appoints other interim committees. The committee must meet quarterly during the interim and is responsible for legislative overvie…

The legislative management, during each biennium, shall appoint an ethics committee to consider or prepare a legislative code of ethics. The committee must include members of the majority and minority parties of each house. The committee may recommend legislation relating to legi…

1. To provide for flexibility in the management of state funds between regular sessions of the legislative assembly and to minimize the need for and the expense of a special session, the legislative management, during each biennium, shall appoint a budget section. 2. The membersh…

Each department, board, commission, agency, officer, or employee in the state government shall furnish such information and render such assistance to the legislative council and to the legislative management as the legislative council or the legislative management or its committe…

The legislative management or committee appointed by it, may sit at such time and place as it may deem advisable, but the legislative management shall meet at least once in each year and shall meet at any time upon the call of the chairman or a call signed by seven members of the…

The governor may send messages to such meetings of the legislative management as the governor determines advisable.

1. The legislative management chairman must be the majority leader of one house of the legislative assembly, or the majority leader's designee, and the vice chairman must be the majority leader of the opposite house of the legislative assembly, or the majority leader's designee. …

The legislative management shall keep minutes of its meetings and a record of all its transactions and shall at the beginning of each biennial legislative session, and may at any other time, make a report of its activities and recommendations to the members of the legislative ass…

The legislative management may require that any recommendation for legislation, which is to be presented by any department, board, commission, agency, officer, official, or employee of the state desiring the consideration of the legislative management, be presented to it at least…

The recommendations of the legislative management must be completed and made public prior to any session of the legislative assembly at which such recommendations are to be submitted; and a copy of the recommendations must be distributed to each member-elect of the legislative as…

1. The members of the legislative management and the members of any committee of the legislative management are entitled to be compensated for the time spent in attendance at sessions of the legislative management and of its committees at the rate of two hundred nineteen dollars …

The legislative management shall appoint a legislative budget analyst and auditor. A person is not eligible for the appointment unless the person holds a baccalaureate degree from a recognized institution of higher learning, is a certified public accountant, or has had five years…

The salaries, travel, and other expenses of the legislative budget analyst and auditor and other personnel within the legislative budget analyst and auditor's office must be submitted, approved, and paid in the same manner as other employees of the legislative council.

The legislative budget analyst and auditor shall attend all budget hearings carried on by the executive budget officer and shall have access to all budget material submitted to, and all studies carried on by, the executive budget officer. The legislative budget analyst and audito…

1. The legislative council shall provide information technology research and staff services to the legislative branch. The services must be provided in accordance with the existing statutory authority of the legislative council and within the framework of its other staff services…

The legislative management, during each biennium, shall appoint an information technology committee in the same manner as the legislative management appoints other interim committees. The legislative management shall appoint six members of the house of representatives and five me…

The information technology committee has continuing existence and may meet and conduct its business during the legislative session and in the interim between sessions. The committee shall: 1. Meet at least once each calendar quarter. 2. Receive a report from the chief information…

The information technology committee may request the state auditor to conduct an information technology compliance review. The review may consist of an audit of an agency's information technology management, information technology planning, compliance with information technology …

The legislative management may issue a call for the legislative assembly to convene after it has adjourned under subsection 2 of section 54-03-02. The length of a legislative session called under this section may not exceed the number of natural days available under the constitut…

When the legislative assembly is in session, either house by resolution may authorize, or both houses by concurrent resolution may direct, the legislative council to appoint or retain legal counsel to appear in, commence, prosecute, defend, or intervene in any action, suit, matte…

1. The legislative management, during each biennium, shall appoint an energy development and transmission committee in the same manner as the legislative management appoints other interim committees. 2. The legislative management shall appoint six members of the house of represen…

Expired under S.L. 2003, ch. 36, § 20.

Expired under S.L. 2003, ch. 36, § 21.

Expired pursuant to S.L. 1999, ch. 467, § 3.

All fees received by the legislative council and the legislative assembly for providing legislative information services and copies of legislative documents must be deposited in the legislative services fund in the state treasury. The legislative services fund is a revolving fund…

Repealed by S.L. 2023, ch. 584, § 2.

1. The committee on tribal and state relations is composed of seven members as follows: a. A chairman designated by the chairman of the legislative management; b. Three members of the house of representatives, two of whom must be selected by the leader representing the majority f…

Expired by S.L. 2013, ch.414, §1.

The legislative management shall establish a policy regarding promotional expenses made on behalf of the legislative assembly. Any expenditure made pursuant to this section must be reported to the legislative management. An expenditure under this section may not be construed as a…

1. The legislative management shall assign to one or more interim committees a study of selected state agency fees as provided in this section. a. By July 1, 2022, each state agency that is authorized to impose forty fees or fewer shall submit a report to the office of management…

The North Dakota Indian affairs commission consists of the governor, three members appointed by the governor from the state at large, two of whom must be of Indian descent, must be enrolled members of a tribe, and must be current voting residents of the state, and the chairperson…

The governor, after consultation with the members of the commission, shall appoint an executive director of the Indian affairs commission who must serve at the pleasure of the governor. The governor may employ such other personnel, as the governor deems necessary, and shall presc…

The Indian affairs commission may assist and mobilize the support of state and federal agencies in assisting Indian individuals and groups in North Dakota, especially the five tribal councils, as the Indian individuals and tribal councils seek to develop their own goals, project …

All public officers, both state and local, shall upon request furnish the Indian affairs commission such available information as it may require for its purposes.

At any meeting of the commission a majority of the members constitutes a quorum and a majority of the quorum may act in any matter falling within the jurisdiction of the commission.

The Indian affairs commission may submit its recommendations to the legislative assembly in the form of proposed legislation or resolutions and may submit a report to the governor and the secretary of state in accordance with section 54-06-04.

Omitted.

There is created a revolving fund known as the Indian affairs commission printing fund. All moneys collected by the commission from fees from persons purchasing publications and informal and educational materials produced or distributed by the commission and moneys received from …

The commission may produce and distribute publications and informational and educational materials and may charge a fee for the publication. The fee must be established at an amount equal to the postage and printing costs of the publication.

A North Dakota American Indian business development office is established within the commission to assist North Dakota American Indian tribal and individual economic development representatives, businesses, and entrepreneurs with access to state and federal programs designed to a…

In this chapter, unless the context or subject matter otherwise requires: 1. "Alcoholic" means any person who chronically and habitually uses alcoholic beverages to the extent that the person has lost the power of self-control with respect to the use of such beverages, or while c…

Repealed by S.L. 1987, ch. 570, § 45.

Repealed by S.L. 1971, ch. 508, § 7.

Repealed by S.L. 1971, ch. 508, § 7.

The department shall: 1. Study alcoholism and drug abuse and related problems, including methods and facilities available for the care, custody, detention, treatment, employment, and rehabilitation of resident alcoholics and drug dependent persons. 2. Promote meetings and program…

The department may establish new facilities for the treatment of alcoholics and drug dependent persons in areas of the state where a need exists and no private facilities are available to contract for chemical abuse or dependency treatment services. The department may contract fo…