Board of county commissioners to provide offices, courtroom, jail - Where public records kept - Authorization for central filing of documents of recorder and clerk of district court
N.D. Cent. Code § 11-10-20
in effect11-10-20. Board of county commissioners to provide offices, courtroom, jail - Where
public records kept - Authorization for central filing of documents of recorder and clerk
of district court.
The board of county commissioners shall provide a courtroom and jail, and shall provide
offices in the courthouse of the county for the sheriff, county treasurer, recorder, auditor, clerk of
the district court, state's attorney, county superintendent of schools, and any other officer who
has charge of public records. If there is no courthouse in the county or if the courthouse erected
has insufficient capacity, such offices must be furnished by the county in a suitable building at
the county seat for all elected officials, and at any place within the county for appointive or
administrative officials, at the lowest rent to be obtained, provided that this section does not
apply where county officials may serve more than one county as may be otherwise authorized
by law. The board of county commissioners may provide by resolution for the filing in a single
location of documents maintained by the recorder and the clerk of the district court. The
resolution must state in which office the filing is to be done, the persons who are to have
custody of and access to the central files, and must list the documents which are to be centrally
filed.
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