North Dakota Code 39-04-10.10 – North Dakota veterans’ number plates
1. The director may issue distinctive number plates to individuals eligible for interment in the North Dakota veterans’ cemetery. The director shall issue a number plate under this section upon receiving:
Terms Used In North Dakota Code 39-04-10.10
- Legislative session: That part of a chamber's daily session in which it considers legislative business (bills, resolutions, and actions related thereto).
- 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
a. Payment of all other fees required under this chapter for registration of a motor vehicle; b. Payment of an initial fee of fifteen dollars of which ten dollars is to be deposited in the highway tax distribution fund and five dollars is to be deposited in the veterans’ cemetery maintenance fund unless for a plate issued to a veteran who has been awarded the purple heart, then there is not an initial fee; and
c. Verification of subsequent payments of an annual surcharge of ten dollars paid to the adjutant general unless for a plate issued to a veteran who has been awarded the purple heart, then there is not an annual surcharge.
2. The department shall collect the fees and the ten dollar surcharge under this section.
The department shall report to the legislative assembly on the funds collected under this section during each legislative session. The department shall pay the funds collected under subdivisions b and c of subsection 1 to the adjutant general monthly, who then, within ten days of receipt of the funds, shall deposit five dollars of each initial fee in the veterans’ cemetery maintenance fund and the ten dollar surcharge shall be divided with five dollars being deposited in the veterans’ cemetery trust fund and five dollars being deposited in the veterans’ cemetery maintenance fund in the state treasury. Investment of the fund is the responsibility of the state treasurer who shall have full authority to invest the fund only in the same manner as the state investment board is authorized to make investments. At the request of the adjutant general, the interest in the veterans’ cemetery trust fund must be deposited in the veterans’ cemetery maintenance fund for the purpose of funding salaries and maintenance of the veterans’ cemetery.
3. The veterans’ cemetery trust fund may accept funds from private and federal sources.