North Dakota Code 65-04-13 – Books, records, and payrolls of employers subject to audit and inspection – Penalty for refusal to permit inspection
All books, records, and payrolls of the employers of the state, showing or reflecting in any way upon the amount of wage expenditure of the employers, are open always for inspection by the organization or any of its traveling auditors, inspectors, or assistants for the purpose of ascertaining the correctness of the reports, wage expenditures, the number of employees, and any other information necessary for the organization to administer this title. An employer who refuses to submit the employer’s books, records, and payrolls for inspection by the organization, or its auditor, inspector, or assistant presenting written authority from the organization, is subject to a penalty of five hundred dollars for each offense. The organization shall collect the penalty by civil action in the name of the state and shall deposit a penalty collected under this section to the credit of the fund.
Terms Used In North Dakota Code 65-04-13
- Organization: includes a foreign or domestic association, business trust, corporation, enterprise, estate, joint venture, limited liability company, limited liability partnership, limited partnership, partnership, trust, or any legal or commercial entity. See North Dakota Code 1-01-49
- State: when applied to the different parts of the United States, includes the District of Columbia and the territories. See North Dakota Code 1-01-49
- written: include "typewriting" and "typewritten" and "printing" and "printed" except in the case of signatures and when the words are used by way of contrast to typewriting and printing. See North Dakota Code 1-01-37