North Dakota Century Code Title 54. State Government § 54-17-24. State trusts created

The industrial commission is hereby authorized and directed to acquire and to hold in one or more trusts all unpaid United States government guaranteed or reinsured student loans and North Dakota guaranteed student loans, belonging to the state of North Dakota or to any of its agencies, departments, or institutions which may be endorsed or assigned to it, such guaranteed student loans held in the trusts as security for bonds of the state to be issued as and in the manner the commission shall decide. All guaranteed student loans so held in the trusts and the collections therefrom and the increments thereto must be held in special funds as the source of payment of bonds of North Dakota to be issued, none of which bonds may constitute indebtedness of the state. The term “student” for the purposes of this section and section 54-17-25 includes a parent borrower under chapter 15-62.1.