North Dakota Century Code Title 24. Highways, Bridges, and Ferries § 24-02-37.3. Flexible transportation fund--Budget section approval--Report [Applies retroactively to July 1, 2023]

a. Providing a match for federal funding obtained by the department of transportation.

b. State-funded road and bridge construction and maintenance, and transportation support costs including staffing, facilities, and operational expenditures on the state highway system.

c. State-funded road and bridge construction and maintenance activities within the state but off of the state highway system. The director shall establish the terms and provisions of the program.

a. The funds must be allocated by the department to counties for projects or grants for the benefit of counties and organized and unorganized townships;

b. The department shall establish criteria to distribute the funds;

c. The funds must be used for the maintenance and improvement of county and township paved and unpaved roads and bridges;

d. Priority must be given to projects that match federal funds and to projects that improve roadways that serve as local corridors;

e. An organized township is not eligible to receive funding if the township does not maintain any roadways or does not levy at least eighteen mills for general purposes; and

f. For purposes of this subsection, “non-oil-producing county” means a county that received no allocation of funding or a total allocation of less than five million dollars under subsection 2 of section 57-51-15 in the most recently completed even-numbered fiscal year before the start of each biennium.