The state banking board and state credit union board shall keep a full and complete record of all their proceedings and of all orders made by them. The records and the proceedings of the boards and commissioner are open in accordance with sections 44-04-18 and 44-04-19. All reports, except supervisory reports of examination, made by or filed with the board or the commissioner relating to any financial institution, must be open to inspection and examination by stockholders, shareholders, depositors, creditors, and sureties on any bonds of any such institution or on the bonds of any officer or employee thereof, subject, however, to the following restrictions:

Terms Used In North Dakota Code 6-01-07

  • Banking: means the business of receiving deposits, making loans, discounting commercial paper, issuing drafts, traveler's checks, and similar instruments, handling and making collections, cashing checks and drafts, and buying and selling exchange. See North Dakota Code 6-01-02
  • board: when used in this title includes the state banking board and the state credit union board. See North Dakota Code 6-01-03
  • Commissioner: means the commissioner of financial institutions. See North Dakota Code 6-01-02
  • Credit union: means a cooperative, nonprofit association organized for the purposes of encouraging thrift among its members, creating a source of credit at a fair and reasonable rate of interest, and providing an opportunity for its members to improve their economic and social condition. See North Dakota Code 6-01-02
  • Financial institution: means any bank, industrial loan company, or savings and loan association organized under the laws of this state or of the United States. See North Dakota Code 6-01-02
  • following: when used by way of reference to a chapter or other part of a statute means the next preceding or next following chapter or other part. See North Dakota Code 1-01-49
  • Individual: means a human being. See North Dakota Code 1-01-49
  • Person: means an individual, organization, government, political subdivision, or government agency or instrumentality. See North Dakota Code 1-01-49
  • Record: means information that is inscribed on a tangible medium or that is stored in an electronic or other medium and is retrievable in perceivable form. See North Dakota Code 6-01-02
  • 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

1.    A stockholder, shareholder, depositor, creditor, or surety of any institution desiring to inspect the information specified above of any institution shall make a written request for the inspection.

2.    A written request must:

a.    Specify the information to which access is requested; and b.    Give the reasons for the request.

3.    Upon written request, the commissioner, or any person designated in writing by the commissioner, may disclose information specified in subsection 1 of section 6-01-07.1 only upon determining and to the extent that good cause exists for the disclosure.

4.    Either prior to or at the time of any disclosure, the commissioner or designee shall impose such terms and conditions as the commissioner deems necessary to protect the confidential nature of the information, the financial integrity of the financial institution to which the information relates, and the legitimate privacy interests of any individual named in the information.