To carry out this chapter, the commissioner may utilize any information on file in the state fire marshal’s department and any of the employees of the commissioner and the commissioner may employ necessary assistants or contract for services of assistants from the North Dakota insurance reserve fund and may incur necessary expenses. All expenditures made for these purposes, other than services contracted and paid for by moneys from the fund and any necessary expenses paid from moneys from the reserve balance within the fund, must remain    within the limits of legislative appropriations and must be paid out of the fund upon warrants prepared by the office of management and budget drawn upon the state treasurer after the approval of vouchers by the office of the budget. Moneys from the reserve balance within the fund are appropriated to the commissioner on a continuing basis for the purposes of this section.