North Dakota Code § 57-38-01

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As used in this chapter, unless the context or subject matter otherwise requires:
1. "Chronically mentally ill" means a person who, as a result of a mental disorder, exhibits 
emotional or behavioral functioning which is so impaired as to interfere substantially 
with the person's capacity to remain in the community without verified supportive 
treatment or services of a long -term or indefinite duration. This mental disability must 
be severe and persistent, resulting in a long -term limitation of the person's functional 
capacities for primary activities of daily living such as interpersonal relationships, 
homemaking, self-care, employment, and recreation.
2. "Corporation" includes associations, business trusts, joint stock companies, and 
insurance companies.
3. "Developmental disability" has the same meaning as defined in section 25-01.2-01.
4. "Domestic" when applied to a corporation means created or organized under the laws 
of North Dakota.
5. "Federal Internal Revenue Code of 1954, as amended", "United States Internal 
Revenue Code of 1954, as amended", and "Internal Revenue Code of 1954, as 
amended", mean the United States Internal Revenue Code of 1986, as amended. 
Reference to the Internal Revenue Code of 1954, as amended, includes a reference to 
the United States Internal Revenue Code of 1986, as amended, and reference to the 
United States Internal Revenue Code of 1986, as amended, includes a reference to 
the provisions of law formerly known as the Internal Revenue Code of 1954, as 
amended.
a. Except that the provisions of section 168(f)(8) of the Internal Revenue Code of 
1954, as amended, are not adopted in those instances when the minimum 
investment by the lessor is less than one hundred percent for the purpose of 
computing North Dakota taxable income for individuals, estates, trusts, and 
corporations for taxable years beginning on or after January 1, 1983. Therefore, 
federal taxable income must be increased, or decreased, as the case may be, to 
reflect the adoption or nonadoption of the provisions of section 168(f)(8) of the 
Internal Revenue Code of 1954, as amended, and such adjustments must be 
made before computing income subject to apportionment.
b. Provided, that one -half of the amount not allowed as an accelerated cost 
recovery system depreciation deduction for the taxable year beginning after 
December 31, 1982, may be deducted from federal taxable income in each of the 
next two taxable years beginning after December 31, 1985, and one -half of the 
amount not allowed as an accelerated cost recovery system depreciation 
deduction for the taxable year beginning after December 31, 1983, may be 
deducted from federal taxable income in each of the next two years beginning 
after December 31, 1987, and one -half of the amount not allowed as an 
accelerated cost recovery system depreciation deduction for the taxable year 
beginning after December 31, 1984, may be deducted from federal taxable 
income in each of the next two taxable years beginning after December 31, 1989. 
All such adjustments must be made before computing income subject to 
apportionment.
c. Provided, that the depreciation adjustments allowed in subdivision b shall be 
limited to those eligible assets acquired during taxable years beginning after 
December 31, 1982. Acquisitions made before taxable years beginning 
January 1, 1983, must be depreciated pursuant to the methods permissible under 
Internal Revenue Code provisions in effect prior to January 1, 1981.
d. Except that for purposes of applying the Internal Revenue Code of 1954, as 
amended, with respect to actual distributions made after December 31, 1984, by 
a domestic international sales corporation, or former domestic international sales 
corporation, which was a domestic international sales corporation on 

December 31, 1984, any accumulated domestic international sales corporation 
income of a domestic international sales corporation, or former domestic 
international sales corporation, which is derived before January 1, 1985, may not 
be treated as previously taxed income.
6. "Foreign" when applied to a corporation means created or organized outside of North 
Dakota.
7. "Mental disorder" means a substantial disorder of the person's emotional processes, 
thought, cognition, or memory. Mental disorder is distinguished from:
a. Conditions which are primarily those of drug abuse, alcoholism, or intellectual 
disability, unless in addition to one or more of these conditions, the person has a 
mental disorder.
b. The declining mental abilities that accompany impending death.
c. Character and personality disorders characterized by lifelong and deeply 
ingrained antisocial behavior patterns, including sexual behaviors which are 
abnormal and prohibited by statute, unless the behavior results from a mental 
disorder.
8. "Passthrough entity" means a corporation that for the applicable tax year is treated as 
an S corporation under the Internal Revenue Code, a limited liability company that for 
the applicable tax year is not taxed as a corporation for federal income tax purposes, a 
general partnership, limited partnership, limited liability partnership, limited liability 
limited partnership, trust, or a similar entity that passes its income, deductions, and 
credits through to its owners.
9. "Person" includes individuals, fiduciaries, partnerships, corporations, and limited 
liability companies, and other entities recognized by the laws of this state.
10. "Qualified investment fund" means any regulated investment company as defined 
under the Internal Revenue Code, which for the calendar year in which the distribution 
is paid:
a. Has investments in interest -bearing obligations issued by or on behalf of this 
state, any political subdivision of this state, or the United States government; and
b. Has provided the tax commissioner with a detailed schedule of the assets 
contained in its investment portfolio and a schedule of the income attributable to 
each asset in its investment portfolio for the calendar year.
11. "Resident" applies only to natural persons and includes, for the purpose of determining 
liability for the tax imposed by this chapter upon or with reference to the income of any 
income year, any person domiciled in the state of North Dakota and any other person 
who maintains a permanent place of abode within the state and spends in the 
aggregate more than seven months of the income year within the state. A full -time 
active duty member of the armed forces assigned to a military installation in this state, 
or the member's spouse, is not a "resident" of this state for purposes of this chapter 
simply by reason of having voted in an election in this state.
12. "Tax commissioner" means the state tax commissioner.
13. "Taxable income" in the case of individuals, estates, trusts, and corporations means 
the taxable income as computed for an individual, estate, trust, or corporation for 
federal income tax purposes under the United States Internal Revenue Code of 1954, 
as amended, plus or minus the adjustments as may be provided by this chapter or 
other provisions of law. Except as otherwise expressly provided, "taxable income" 
does not include any amount computed for federal alternative minimum tax purposes.
14. "Taxpayer" includes any individual, corporation, or fiduciary subject to a tax imposed 
by this chapter.
15. Any term, as used in this code, as it pertains to the filing and reporting of income, 
deductions, or exemptions or the paying of North Dakota income tax, has the same 
meaning as when used in a comparable context in the laws of the United States 
relating to federal income taxes, unless a different meaning is clearly required or 
contemplated.

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