North Dakota Code 57-38.3-02 – Definitions
As used in this chapter:
Terms Used In North Dakota Code 57-38.3-02
- Bankruptcy: Refers to statutes and judicial proceedings involving persons or businesses that cannot pay their debts and seek the assistance of the court in getting a fresh start. Under the protection of the bankruptcy court, debtors may discharge their debts, perhaps by paying a portion of each debt. Bankruptcy judges preside over these proceedings.
- Contract: A legal written agreement that becomes binding when signed.
- Individual: means a human being. See North Dakota Code 1-01-49
- Obligation: An order placed, contract awarded, service received, or similar transaction during a given period that will require payments during the same or a future period.
- 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
- Tort: A civil wrong or breach of a duty to another person, as outlined by law. A very common tort is negligent operation of a motor vehicle that results in property damage and personal injury in an automobile accident.
- year: means twelve consecutive months. See North Dakota Code 1-01-33
1. “Claimant agency” means the department of health and human services, job service North Dakota, workforce safety and insurance, state institutions of higher education, the North Dakota student loan service center, the insurance commissioner, the North Dakota guaranteed student loan program, the industrial commission acting as the state housing finance agency under chapter 54-17, a housing authority created under section 23-11-02, or the state court administrator on behalf of the state courts for purposes of court-ordered fines, fees, or costs due the state. On or before September first of each year, the state housing finance agency shall conduct an election by mail among housing authorities of the state and certify to the tax commissioner which housing authority received the greatest number of votes and is capable of compliance with the duties of a claimant agency under section 57-38.3-05. During the ensuing calendar year, the housing authority certified as selected under this subsection shall act as the claimant agency for all housing authorities for the purposes of submitting debtor information to the tax commissioner for fund transfers and for providing notice to the debtor as required by section 57-38.3-05.
2. “Commissioner” means the North Dakota tax commissioner or the commissioner’s designee.
3. “Debt” means any liquidated sum due and owing, or required to be collected by, any claimant agency which has accrued through contract, subrogation, tort, or operation of law, regardless of whether there is an outstanding judgment for that sum.
4. “Debtor” means any individual owing money to or having a delinquent or defaulted account or loan with any claimant agency, which obligation has not been adjudicated satisfied by court order, set aside by court order, or discharged in bankruptcy, or otherwise canceled under the Higher Education Act of 1965 [Pub. L. 89-329; 79 Stat.
1219; 20 U.S.C. § 1001 et seq.].
5. “Refund” means the North Dakota income tax refund which the commissioner determines to be due any individual taxpayer.