North Dakota Code § 50-06-01.1

Department of health and human services to be substituted for public
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welfare board of North Dakota and social service board of North Dakota, members of 
board, commissioner, and department of human services.
When the terms "public welfare board of North Dakota", "social service board of North 
Dakota", "executive director of the public welfare board", "executive director of the social service 
board", "department of human services", or "executive director of the department of human 
services", "member of the public welfare board", or "member of the social service board", or any 
derivative of those terms which, when used in context indicates an intention to refer to those 
persons or that board, appear in the North Dakota Century Code, the term "department of 
health and human services", or the term " commissioner of the department of health and human 
services", as the case may be, must be substituted therefor. It is the intent of the legislative 
assembly that the department of health and human services must be substituted for, shall take 
any action previously to be taken by, and shall perform any duties previously to be performed by 
the public welfare board of North Dakota , by the social service board of North Dakota , by the 
department of human services, or by the state department of health. The legislative council may 
replace references to the "department of human services" or "executive director of the 
department of human services" or any derivatives of those terms with "department of health and 
human services" or "executive director of the department of health and human services" in any 
measure enacted by the sixty-seventh legislative assembly . The legislative council may replace 
references to the "executive director of the department of human services" or any derivatives of 
those terms with "commissioner of the department of health and human services or designee" in 
any measure enacted by the sixty-eighth legislative assembly.

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