# Title 37 — Military

## Chapter 37-05 — Property and Disbursing Officer

### § 37-05-01. Property and disbursing officer - Qualifications - Appointment - Bond -

Compensation.
The governor shall appoint, designate, or detail, subject to the approval of the secretary of
defense, an officer of the national guard of this state, who is the accountable property and
disbursing officer of the United States and shall perform the duties of such office in addition to
any other duties which the officer may be required to perform. Before entering upon the
performance of the officer's duties as property and disbursing officer, the officer shall give a
good and sufficient bond to the United States, in such amount as the secretary of defense may
require, conditioned for the faithful performance of the officer's duties and the safekeeping and
proper disbursing of the federal property and funds entrusted to the officer's care. After having
qualified as property and disbursing officer, the officer shall receive pay for the officer's services
at a rate to be fixed by the secretary of defense.
### § 37-05-02. Secretary of defense to pay allotment to property and disbursing officer -

Amount.
Upon requisition by the governor, the secretary of defense may pay to the property and
disbursing officer so much of this state's allotment out of the annual appropriation for the
support of the national guard of this state as in the judgment of the secretary of defense may be
necessary.
### § 37-05-03. Accounts, returns, and reports made by property and disbursing officer.

The property and disbursing officer shall render through the defense department such
accounts of federal funds entrusted to that officer for disbursement as may be required by the
treasury department of the United States. The property and disbursing officer shall receipt and
be accountable for all funds and property belonging to the United States in possession of this
state and shall make such returns and reports concerning the same as may be required by the
secretary of defense.
### § 37-05-04. Property and disbursing officer may entrust money to other officers -

Liability - Penalty for misconduct.
Under such regulations as may be prescribed by the secretary of defense, the property and
disbursing officer accountable for public moneys may entrust money to any other officer of the
national guard for the purpose of having that officer make disbursements thereof as the property
and disbursing officer's agent, and each officer to whom money is so entrusted, as well as the
officer entrusting the same to that officer, must be held pecuniarily responsible therefor to the
United States. For the agent officer's official misconduct, the agent officer is subject to all the
liabilities and penalties prescribed by law in like cases for the officer for whom the agent officer
acts as agent.
