North Dakota Code § 54-46-05

Duties of agency heads
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The head of each agency shall:
1. Establish and maintain an active, continuing program for the economical and efficient 
management of the records of the agency.
2. Make and maintain records containing adequate and proper documentation of the 
organization, functions, policies, decisions, procedures, and essential transactions of 
the agency designed to furnish information to protect the legal and financial rights of 
the state and of persons directly affected by the agency's activities.
3. Submit to the administrator, in accordance with the standards adopted by the 
administrator, schedules proposing the length of time each state record series 
warrants retention for administrative, legal, or fiscal purposes after it has been 
received by the agency.
4. Submit to the administrator lists of state records in the custody of the agency which 
are not needed in the transaction of current business and which do not have 
administrative, legal, or fiscal value.
5. Cooperate with the administrator in the conduct of surveys made by the administrator 
pursuant to this chapter, including resolving findings of noncompliance with the records 
management program as may be indicated in the final survey report. Failure to 
cooperate with the administrator may result in reported noncompliance as authorized 
under subsection 7 of section 54-46-04.
6. Comply with the rules, standards, and procedures adopted by the administrator.

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