The supervising department shall keep in its office a record showing:

Terms Used In North Dakota Code 25-01.1-13

  • Person: means an individual, organization, government, political subdivision, or government agency or instrumentality. See North Dakota Code 1-01-49
  • Sex: means the biological state of being male or female, based on the individual's nonambiguous sex organs, chromosomes, or endogenous hormone profiles at birth. See North Dakota Code 1-01-49

1.    The residence, sex, age, nativity, occupation, religion, civil condition, and date of entrance or commitment of every person, patient, or inmate in the institutions under its control and administration.

2.    The date of discharge of every such person from the institutions, and whether such discharge was final.

3.    The condition of the person at the time the person left the institution.

4.    If a person is transferred from one institution to another, to what institution transferred.

5.    If a person, patient, or inmate of an institution dies, the date and cause of death.

This information must be furnished to the supervising department by the institutions under its control. Such other obtainable facts must be furnished as the supervising department, from time to time, may require. No one may have access to the records, except as authorized by the supervising department, or on the order of a court of record.