# Title 54 — State Government

## Chapter 54-35.2 — State Advisory Commission on Intergovernmental Relations

### § 54-35.2-01. Task force on intergovernmental issues - Membership - Meetings.

1. The legislative management may appoint task forces on intergovernmental issues
assigned by the legislative management based on a study directive of a legislative bill
or resolution and may appoint to each task force representatives of political
subdivisions, the governor or the governor's designee, and members of the legislative
assembly. The majority of the members of any task force appointed must be members
of the legislative assembly. Task force appointees as representatives of political
subdivisions may be selected from nominees of the North Dakota league of cities,
association of counties, township officers association, recreation and park association,
and school boards association.
2. The legislative management shall designate the chairman and vice chairman and the
study directive of each task force.
3. Each task force shall meet at the call of its chairman.
### § 54-35.2-02. Functions and duties.

Each task force on intergovernmental issues shall serve as a forum for the discussion of
resolution of issues relating to its study directive.
### § 54-35.2-02.1. Local government efficiency planning grants.

Repealed by S.L. 1999, ch. 468, § 1.
### § 54-35.2-03. Staff services.

Each task force on intergovernmental issues may request provision of appropriate staff
services from the legislative council.
### § 54-35.2-04. Compensation and expenses.

A member of the task force on intergovernmental issues who is a member of the
legislative assembly is entitled to receive, from funds available to the task force, compensation
per day for each day spent in attendance at task force meetings in the same amount as
provided for members of interim committees of the legislative management and reimbursement
for travel and other necessary expenses incurred in the performance of official duties in the
amounts provided by law for other state officers. Members of the task force on
intergovernmental issues who represent political subdivisions may be reimbursed for
attendance at task force meetings by the organization they represent.
### § 54-35.2-05. Reports.

Each task force on intergovernmental issues shall report its findings and recommendations
and any proposed legislation necessary to implement the recommendations to the legislative
management by the deadline provided by the legislative management when the task force was
appointed. A majority of the members of each task force and a majority of the legislative
assembly members of each task force must vote in favor of any proposed legislation before the
proposed legislation may be recommended to the legislative management.
