North Dakota Code 54-44-04 – Powers and duties of the director of the office of management and budget
The director of the office of management and budget, or such subordinate officer as the director shall designate:
Terms Used In North Dakota Code 54-44-04
- 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
- Process: means a writ or summons issued in the course of judicial proceedings. See North Dakota Code 1-01-49
- Property: includes property, real and personal. See North Dakota Code 1-01-49
- Settlement: Parties to a lawsuit resolve their difference without having a trial. Settlements often involve the payment of compensation by one party in satisfaction of the other party's claims.
- 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
1. Shall examine the budget affecting the legislative and judicial branches of the state government, but only for the purpose of determining the sufficiency of funds to meet the contemplated expenditures of these branches of state government or their officers or agencies.
2. Shall keep the general accounts, reflecting for each fund the resources and balance, together with current revenues and expenditures, and shall provide for an accrual accounting system.
3. Shall, acting as director of the office of the budget, process all claims for submittal to the office of management and budget, which may conduct the preaudit of all claims from the executive branch of the government before payment and the director shall conduct the current audit of all revenues, which must include the supervision of the collection of all moneys due the state.
4. Except as otherwise provided by law, shall prepare warrants for payment of all claims.
5. May, in anticipation of federal revenues to be received within fifteen days, prepare warrants to be signed by the state auditor in payment of duly authorized vouchers even though funds at such time do not exist to honor the warrants. Warrants so issued are payable by the state treasurer out of any funds in the treasurer’s hands other than sinking funds or funds dedicated by the Constitution of North Dakota for other purposes.
6. Is vested with the duties, powers, and responsibilities involved in the development and installation of financial records and procedures for all state departments and agencies.
7. Shall coordinate the development of accounting and financial related systems.
8. Shall create an accounting manual and provide sufficient training of current and potential users concerning the functions and use of a statewide accounting and reporting system.
9. Shall provide for the maintaining of accounting records which will identify the revenues and expenditures of the state in accordance with the requirements of the state’s central accounting system.
10. Shall provide for expenditures from general and special fund appropriations to be made in accordance with the requirements of the state’s central accounting system.
11. May provide for federal fund receipts and disbursements to be deposited and disbursed from a state federal fund in accordance with the requirements of the state’s central accounting system.
12. Shall conduct such interval audits of accounts in the several departments of the state as the director deems necessary.
13. Shall issue current reports to administrative officials concerning the status of revenue, expenditures, and appropriation accounts, and shall make periodic financial reports to the governor, administrative officials, the legislative assembly, and the public.
14. Shall prepare on an annual basis comprehensive financial statements of the state of North Dakota.
15. Shall, when requested, give information in writing to either house of the legislative assembly relating to the fiscal affairs of the state or to the administration of the office of management and budget.
16. Shall submit to the governor at the close of each business day, or at such times as the governor may request, a report showing the current condition of each fund and appropriation.
17. Shall keep an account between the state and state treasurer, and charge the state treasurer therein with the balance in the treasury when the treasurer came into office, and with all moneys received by the state treasurer, and credit the treasurer with all warrants drawn on and paid by the treasurer.
18. Is vested with the duties, powers, and responsibilities involved in the operation of a centralized purchasing service.
19. Shall maintain and operate such supply rooms as may be found desirable to supply the several departments with office supplies and other commonly used commodities; however, this subsection may not be construed as authorizing the establishment of a warehousing system.
20. Shall distribute federal and state surplus property pursuant to sections 54-44-04.5 and 54-44-04.6.
21. Shall establish and operate a central duplicating service and central mechanical or electronic data processing facilities.
22. Shall perform such other duties as are or may be prescribed by law.
23. Shall account for and monitor all funds received by the state from any tobacco settlement dollars described in section 54-27-25 and all associated settlements and related funds and shall report to the budget section of the legislative management on the status of such funds, settlements, offsets, and net resulting revenues and any other related information the budget section requires.
24. Shall prepare and submit to the legislative council by October 1, 2010, a report including the location, expenses, and square footage requirements of all facilities occupied by each state agency. The report must include recommendations for relocation of any entity to achieve improvements in service to the public along with optimal efficiencies in usage of space and cost. The report must include recommendations within the master plan for construction of buildings on the capitol grounds.
25. Shall prepare and submit a quarterly report to the legislative management of each executive branch agency that gives any full-time state employee salary increases between April 1, 2021, and June 30, 2023, which cumulatively are fifteen percent or more over the employee’s base salary as of March 31, 2021. The report must include the name of each employee receiving the increase and any relevant salary information.