§ 44-04-01 When official reports to be made
§ 44-04-03 Attorney general and state’s attorney to prosecute officer for failure to make report
§ 44-04-04 Aliens convicted of felony or adjudged mentally ill
§ 44-04-05 Certified copies of papers on alien convicted of felony – Request by United States immigration officer
§ 44-04-06 Peace officers to report law violations
§ 44-04-07 Inventory required
§ 44-04-09 Nepotism
§ 44-04-10 Violation of provisions against nepotism – Penalty
§ 44-04-12 Public property must be delivered to successor
§ 44-04-13 Property delivered to successor
§ 44-04-14 Examination of records of county officers – State’s attorney to prosecute
§ 44-04-15 Examination of records of local officers – State’s attorney to prosecute
§ 44-04-16 Officer to provide blanks and records for office
§ 44-04-17.1 Definitions
§ 44-04-18 Access to public records – Electronically stored information
§ 44-04-18.1 Public employee personal, medical, and employee assistance records – Confidentiality – Personal information maintained by state entities – Exempt
§ 44-04-18.3 Records of juvenile court supervisors and probation officers and law enforcement and correctional employees – Law enforcement work schedules – Confidential informants
§ 44-04-18.4 Confidentiality of trade secret, proprietary, commercial, financial, and research information
§ 44-04-18.5 Computer software programs exempt
§ 44-04-18.6 Access to legislative records and information
§ 44-04-18.7 Criminal intelligence information and criminal investigative information – Nondisclosure – Record of information maintained
§ 44-04-18.8 Examination questions and procedures exemption
§ 44-04-18.9 Access to financial account numbers
§ 44-04-18.10 Disclosure of public records
§ 44-04-18.11 Disclosure pursuant to subpoena or order
§ 44-04-18.12 Cooperative investigations and litigation
§ 44-04-18.13 Lists of minors
§ 44-04-18.15 Fundraising and donor records exempt
§ 44-04-18.16 Confidentiality of patient records at student health services and university system clinics
§ 44-04-18.17 Personal and financial information in a consumer complaint
§ 44-04-18.18 Autopsy images – Confidential – Exceptions
§ 44-04-18.19 Exemption of records relating to individual recipients of economic assistance or benefits
§ 44-04-18.20 Domestic violence and victim record information exempt
§ 44-04-18.21 Electronic mail addresses and telephone numbers exempt
§ 44-04-18.22 Medical condition or medical treatment information obtained during emergency medical response – Exempt
§ 44-04-18.23 Library, archive, and museum collections – Exempt records
§ 44-04-18.24 Legislative bill tracking records – Exempt
§ 44-04-18.25 Value of property paid or delivered to the administrator of the state abandoned property office – Exempt record
§ 44-04-18.26 Requests for records by members of the legislative assembly and the legislative council
§ 44-04-18.27 Applications for public employment – Hiring process – Confidential records and open records
§ 44-04-18.28 Title IX records at state universities and colleges exempt
§ 44-04-18.29 Information received for audits by the board of university and school lands
§ 44-04-18.30 Identity of reporter to social services agency – Exempt records
§ 44-04-18.31 Background interviews for law enforcement officer applications – Exempt records
§ 44-04-18.32 Medical records or medical information – Exempt
§ 44-04-19 Access to public meetings
§ 44-04-19.1 Open records and open meetings – Exemptions for attorney work product, attorney consultation, and negotiation preparation
§ 44-04-19.2 Confidential or closed meetings
§ 44-04-19.3 Open meetings exemption – Legislative caucuses
§ 44-04-20 Notice of public meetings required – Exceptions – Schedule set by statute, ordinance, or resolution
§ 44-04-21 Open voting at public meetings required – Results recorded in minutes
§ 44-04-21.1 Administrative review procedure
§ 44-04-21.2 Remedies for violations and enforcement procedure
§ 44-04-21.3 Attorney general referral and criminal penalties
§ 44-04-22 Conflict of interest law
§ 44-04-24 Security system plan – Disaster and cybersecurity information – Exemption
§ 44-04-25 Public health and security plans – Exemption
§ 44-04-26 Security system plan – Public health and security plans – Exemption from public meeting requirements
§ 44-04-27 Computer passwords and security information – Confidential
§ 44-04-28 Social security numbers – Confidential
§ 44-04-29 Client files at the university of North Dakota school of law – Confidential
§ 44-04-30 Records of the state fire marshal, fire departments, and rural fire protection districts confidential
§ 44-04-31 Business associate – Duty to protect information
§ 44-04-32 Animal feeding operation record requests
§ 44-04-33 Reservation of powers not granted to the federal government

Terms Used In North Dakota Code > Chapter 44-04 - Duties, Records, and Meetings

  • Amendment: A proposal to alter the text of a pending bill or other measure by striking out some of it, by inserting new language, or both. Before an amendment becomes part of the measure, thelegislature must agree to it.
  • Appeal: A request made after a trial, asking another court (usually the court of appeals) to decide whether the trial was conducted properly. To make such a request is "to appeal" or "to take an appeal." One who appeals is called the appellant.
  • Appellate: About appeals; an appellate court has the power to review the judgement of another lower court or tribunal.
  • Arrest: Taking physical custody of a person by lawful authority.
  • Assets: (1) The property comprising the estate of a deceased person, or (2) the property in a trust account.
  • Caucus: From the Algonquian Indian language, a caucus meant "to meet together." An informal organization of members of the legislature that exists to discuss issues of mutual concern and possibly to perform legislative research and policy planning for its members. There are regional, political or ideological, ethnic, and economic-based caucuses.
  • Complaint: A written statement by the plaintiff stating the wrongs allegedly committed by the defendant.
  • Contract: A legal written agreement that becomes binding when signed.
  • Damages: Money paid by defendants to successful plaintiffs in civil cases to compensate the plaintiffs for their injuries.
  • Decedent: A deceased person.
  • Dependent: A person dependent for support upon another.
  • Discovery: Lawyers' examination, before trial, of facts and documents in possession of the opponents to help the lawyers prepare for trial.
  • Donor: The person who makes a gift.
  • Evidence: Information presented in testimony or in documents that is used to persuade the fact finder (judge or jury) to decide the case for one side or the other.
  • Executive session: A portion of the Senate's daily session in which it considers executive business.
  • Fair market value: The price at which an asset would change hands in a transaction between a willing, informed buyer and a willing, informed seller.
  • 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
  • Gift: A voluntary transfer or conveyance of property without consideration, or for less than full and adequate consideration based on fair market value.
  • Guardian: A person legally empowered and charged with the duty of taking care of and managing the property of another person who because of age, intellect, or health, is incapable of managing his (her) own affairs.
  • Indictment: The formal charge issued by a grand jury stating that there is enough evidence that the defendant committed the crime to justify having a trial; it is used primarily for felonies.
  • Individual: means a human being. See North Dakota Code 1-01-49
  • Injunction: An order of the court prohibiting (or compelling) the performance of a specific act to prevent irreparable damage or injury.
  • Jurisdiction: (1) The legal authority of a court to hear and decide a case. Concurrent jurisdiction exists when two courts have simultaneous responsibility for the same case. (2) The geographic area over which the court has authority to decide cases.
  • Legislative session: That part of a chamber's daily session in which it considers legislative business (bills, resolutions, and actions related thereto).
  • Litigation: A case, controversy, or lawsuit. Participants (plaintiffs and defendants) in lawsuits are called litigants.
  • Obligation: An order placed, contract awarded, service received, or similar transaction during a given period that will require payments during the same or a future period.
  • 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
  • paper: means any flexible material upon which it is usual to write. See North Dakota Code 1-01-27
  • Person: means an individual, organization, government, political subdivision, or government agency or instrumentality. See North Dakota Code 1-01-49
  • Presiding officer: A majority-party Senator who presides over the Senate and is charged with maintaining order and decorum, recognizing Members to speak, and interpreting the Senate's rules, practices and precedents.
  • Probation: A sentencing alternative to imprisonment in which the court releases convicted defendants under supervision as long as certain conditions are observed.
  • Process: means a writ or summons issued in the course of judicial proceedings. See North Dakota Code 1-01-49
  • Property: includes property, real and personal. See North Dakota Code 1-01-49
  • Prosecute: To charge someone with a crime. A prosecutor tries a criminal case on behalf of the government.
  • Quorum: The number of legislators that must be present to do business.
  • Remainder: An interest in property that takes effect in the future at a specified time or after the occurrence of some event, such as the death of a life tenant.
  • Rule: includes regulation. See North Dakota Code 1-01-49
  • Sequester: To separate. Sometimes juries are sequestered from outside influences during their deliberations.
  • Settlement: Parties to a lawsuit resolve their difference without having a trial. Settlements often involve the payment of compensation by one party in satisfaction of the other party's claims.
  • 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
  • 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
  • Statute: A law passed by a legislature.
  • Subpoena: A command to a witness to appear and give testimony.
  • United States: includes the District of Columbia and the territories. See North Dakota Code 1-01-49
  • Venue: The geographical location in which a case is tried.
  • 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
  • year: means twelve consecutive months. See North Dakota Code 1-01-33