# Title 18 — Fires

## Chapter 18-03 — Firefighter's Association

### § 18-03-01. North Dakota firefighter's association - How constituted.

The North Dakota firefighter's association consists of the various organized fire departments
and fire protection districts within this state, and each fire department, fire protection district, and
firefighter within the state is entitled to membership in the association upon compliance with the
constitution and bylaws of the association.
### § 18-03-01.1. North Dakota firefighter's association - Duties and authority.

The North Dakota firefighter's association shall:
1. Develop and adopt a statewide fire education and training plan;
2. Coordinate fire service training at all levels;
3. Establish procedures to govern the certification process for firefighter training; and
4. Report quarterly to the state fire marshal.
### § 18-03-02. Fire schools.

Fire schools must be held annually under the direction of the North Dakota firefighter's
association. The schools must be held at such times and in such places in North Dakota as may
be designated by the North Dakota firefighter's association executive board. Fire schools may
be held by teleconference, video, or other alternative media.
### § 18-03-03. Association to report to office of management and budget time and place of

school and name of treasurer.
The North Dakota firefighter's association shall submit to the office of management and
budget an annual report of all fire schools held in the state. The association also shall furnish to
the office of management and budget the name and address of the treasurer of the association.
### § 18-03-04. Association to furnish bond.

The North Dakota firefighter's association shall file with the office of the state fire marshal a
bond in the penal sum of two thousand dollars conditioned for the faithful disposition of the
funds distributed from the insurance regulatory trust fund for the use of the association to carry
out this chapter.
### § 18-03-05. Statement of desired appropriation submitted to state fire marshal.

Not later than July first of each year next preceding a regular session of the legislative
assembly, the North Dakota firefighter's association shall send to the state fire marshal an
itemized statement of the amount of money necessary to promote the efficiency and growth of
the different fire departments and fire protection districts of the association and to carry out this
chapter during the succeeding biennium.
### § 18-03-06. Director of the budget to prepare estimate for firefighter's association.

The director of the budget shall include with its estimates an estimate of the amounts
necessary to be appropriated to promote the efficiency and growth of the different fire
departments and fire protection districts of the association and to conduct fire schools.
### § 18-03-07. Insurance commissioner to pay sum appropriated to association.

Not later than the first day of August of each year, the insurance commissioner shall pay to
the North Dakota firefighter's association one million two hundred thousand dollars from the
insurance regulatory trust fund. The sum, however, may not be paid until the treasurer of the
association has filed the bond required in section 18-03-04.
### § 18-03-08. Report of use of money.

On or before the first day of July of each year, the president, secretary, and treasurer of the
North Dakota firefighter's association shall make to the office of management and budget a full

and complete report, duly verified by the secretary, of the disposition of all moneys received.
The association shall provide for an audit annually by a certified public accountant or licensed
public accountant who shall submit the audit report to the state auditor's office. When the report
is in the form and style prescribed by the state auditor, the state auditor may not conduct an
audit of the records of the association.
### § 18-03-09. Volunteer firemen exempt from poll tax - Duty of secretary of department.

Repealed by S.L. 1969, ch. 528, § 24.
