North Dakota Code 57-06-24 – Allocation – Continuing appropriation
1. The electric generation, transmission, and distribution tax fund is appropriated as a continuing appropriation to the state treasurer for allocation and distribution to counties by April first of each year as provided in this section. The state treasurer shall make the necessary allocations to the counties based on the report received from the tax commissioner. The county auditors shall make the necessary allocations to the taxing districts.
Terms Used In North Dakota Code 57-06-24
- 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
- Property: includes property, real and personal. 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
- taxing district: means a county, city, township, school district, water conservation and flood control district, Garrison Diversion Conservancy District, county park district, joint county park district, irrigation district, park district, rural fire protection district, or any other subdivision of the state empowered to levy taxes. See North Dakota Code 57-02-01
- year: means twelve consecutive months. See North Dakota Code 1-01-33
2. Revenue from the tax on transmission lines under section 57-06-17.3 must be allocated among counties based on the mileage of transmission lines within each county. Revenue received by a county under this subsection must be allocated one-third to the county and two-thirds among the county and other taxing districts in the county based on the mileage of that transmission line where that line is located within each taxing district. Revenue from that portion of a transmission line located in more than one taxing district must be allocated among those taxing districts in proportion to the taxing district’s most recent property tax mill rates that apply where the transmission line is located.