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.

Terms Used In North Dakota Code 37-05-04

  • Liabilities: The aggregate of all debts and other legal obligations of a particular person or legal entity.
  • National guard: means that part of the military forces of this state which is organized, equipped, and federally recognized under the provisions of the National Defense Act, as amended, of the United States as the "national guard, air national guard, of the United States and the state of North Dakota". See North Dakota Code 37-01-01
  • Property: includes property, real and personal. See North Dakota Code 1-01-49
  • United States: includes the District of Columbia and the territories. See North Dakota Code 1-01-49

                    

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