The head of any department, institution, or agency may authorize the payment of moving expenses incurred by a permanent employee who has been employed in that department, institution, or agency not less than one year when that employee is transferred from one city in the state to another for the purpose of assuming a new duty assignment of a permanent nature within that department, institution, or agency. Relocation costs payable are:

1.    All actual costs of moving personal household goods and furnishings, not to exceed eleven thousand pounds [4989.60 kilograms] net weight.

2.    The expenses of transportation to the new residence quarters, limited to one round trip, and actual meal and lodging costs for the employee and spouse, for three days.

3.    The expenses of transportation, lodging, and meals incurred by the employee and the immediate family while en route to the new duty station.

4.    The expenses for the employee and immediate family while occupying temporary living quarters within the state, not to exceed thirty days.

Provided, however, that payment of the expenses itemized in subsections 1 through 4 may not exceed five thousand dollars. Verification for expenses under subsection 1 must be a paid receipt from a licensed moving agency, licensed trailer transportation company, trailer rental agent, or other licensed moving company; verification for expenses under subsection 2 must be highway mileage between the location sites and meal and lodging receipts; verification for expenses under subsection 3 must be receipts for meals and lodging plus highway mileage for one motor vehicle between the duty stations; and verification for expenses under subsection 4 must be according to section 44-08-04. An employee, for the purpose of this section, is one who has served at least one year, including a probationary period, and whose retention is approved after such probationary period.