North Dakota Code 26.1-01-07.1 – Insurance regulatory trust fund established
1. There is hereby created a trust fund designated “insurance regulatory trust fund”. The following amounts must be deposited in the insurance regulatory trust fund:
Terms Used In North Dakota Code 26.1-01-07.1
- Appropriation: The provision of funds, through an annual appropriations act or a permanent law, for federal agencies to make payments out of the Treasury for specified purposes. The formal federal spending process consists of two sequential steps: authorization
- Fiscal year: The fiscal year is the accounting period for the government. For the federal government, this begins on October 1 and ends on September 30. The fiscal year is designated by the calendar year in which it ends; for example, fiscal year 2006 begins on October 1, 2005 and ends on September 30, 2006.
- following: when used by way of reference to a chapter or other part of a statute means the next preceding or next following chapter or other part. See North Dakota Code 1-01-49
- Person: means an individual, organization, government, political subdivision, or government agency or instrumentality. See North Dakota Code 1-01-49
- State: when applied to the different parts of the United States, includes the District of Columbia and the territories. See North Dakota Code 1-01-49
- year: means twelve consecutive months. See North Dakota Code 1-01-33
a. All sums received under section 26.1-01-07.
b. All sums received under section 26.1-01-07.2 from the insurance regulatory trust fund investments.
c. All retaliatory fees imposed upon persons by the insurance department as authorized by law.
d. All administrative penalties, fines, and fees collected by the commissioner from any person subject to this title.
e. Any other amounts provided by legislative appropriation.
2. The moneys so received and deposited in the insurance regulatory trust fund are reserved for use by the insurance department to defray the expenses of the department in the discharge of its administrative and regulatory powers and duties as prescribed by law subject to the applicable laws relating to the appropriations of state funds and to the deposit and expenditure of state moneys. The insurance department is responsible for the proper expenditure of these moneys as provided by law.
3. Except as otherwise provided by law, after the fiscal year has been closed and all expenses relating to the fiscal year have been accounted for, the office of management and budget shall transfer any fund balance remaining in the insurance regulatory trust fund that exceeds one million dollars to the general fund.