# Title 6 — Banks and Banking

## Chapter 6-09.13 — Agriculture Partnership in Assisting Community Expansion

### § 6-09.13-01. Definitions.

In this chapter, unless the context or subject matter otherwise requires:
1. "Agriculture partnership in assisting community expansion fund" means a fund
established to buy down the interest rate on loans to on-farm businesses under this
chapter.
2. "Family farm" means agricultural real estate operated and owned or leased by a
farmer, or other organization authorized to own or lease land used for farming or
ranching under chapter 10-06.1.
3. "Farm business" means any business conducted by the farmer or farmer's family,
which is integrated into the farm operation and is intended to supplement farm income
to allow the farmer to continue farming. The term may include nontraditional
agricultural, manufacturing, processing, value-added processing, targeted service
industries, or other activities calculated to produce income, and subsurface field tiling
projects.
4. "Farmer" means a resident of North Dakota whose principal occupation is the
production of an agricultural commodity or livestock on a family farm.
5. "On-farm business" means any farm business located on a family farm. If a farmer can
demonstrate compelling economic reasons for locating a business in a community
adjacent to the family farm and financial assistance under this chapter will not give the
farmer an unfair economic advantage over a similar non-farm business, the business
may qualify as on-farm.
### § 6-09.13-02. Loans - Participation by the Bank of North Dakota.

1. The Bank of North Dakota may make available an appropriate amount of funds to
purchase participation interests in loans made by financial institutions for the purposes
as set forth in section 6-09.13-03.
2. The amount of a participation interest purchased by the Bank under this section must
be not less than fifty percent nor more than eighty percent of the loan amount.
3. The Bank shall adopt rules to implement this chapter.
### § 6-09.13-03. Loans to farmers - Purposes - Eligible uses.

The loan moneys received by a farmer under this chapter must be used for a farm business.
Eligible uses are:
1. Purchase of real property and equipment.
2. Expansions.
3. Working capital.
4. Purchase of inventory.
5. Subsurface field tiling projects.
The moneys cannot be used to refinance any existing debt.
### § 6-09.13-04. Agriculture partnership in assisting community expansion fund

established - Continuing appropriation.
The agriculture partnership in assisting community expansion fund is hereby established
and is a revolving fund, and all moneys transferred into the fund, interest upon fund moneys,
and payments to the fund are hereby appropriated for the purposes of section 6-09.13-05. After
December 31, 1992, moneys may be transferred between this fund and the partnership in
assisting community expansion fund established in section 6-09.14-02. This fund is not subject
to section 54-44.1-11. The fund must be audited annually pursuant to section 6-09-29, and the
cost of the audit must be paid from the fund.

### § 6-09.13-05. Interest rate buydown.

The Bank of North Dakota may use moneys in the agriculture partnership in assisting
community expansion fund to reduce the interest rate on loans made under this chapter.
