23.1102.01000
Sixty-eighth
Legislative Assembly SENATE BILL NO. 2365
of North Dakota
Introduced by
Senator Klein
1 A BILL for an Act to provide for a legislative management study regarding township participation
2 in the national flood insurance program.
3 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATIVE ASSEMBLY OF NORTH DAKOTA:
4 SECTION 1. LEGISLATIVE MANAGEMENT STUDY - TOWNSHIP PARTICIPATION IN
5 THE NATIONAL FLOOD INSURANCE PROGRAM.
6 1. During the 2023-24 interim, the legislative management shall study the roles of the
7 insurance commissioner, department of emergency services, and department of water
8 resources in relation to the tracking and updating of the relevant primary land use
9 authority on lands outside a municipality's jurisdiction. The study must:
10 a. Include a method of tracking all organized townships within the state and
11 maintaining updated contact information, certified annually by December thirty-
12 first.
13 b. Consider a formal process for organized townships to request, establish, and
14 track the yielding of land use authority to an adjacent jurisdiction.
15 c. Consider how insurance producers access the necessary information, including
16 updated contact information of the authority, to appropriately associate potential
17 insurance policy holders with the relevant land use authority for the purposes of
18 the federal emergency management agency's national flood insurance program.
19 d. Consider how a member of the public may access the relevant land use authority
20 associated with a specific parcel of land.
21 2. The legislative management shall report its findings and recommendations, together
22 with any legislation necessary to implement the recommendations, to the sixty-ninth
23 legislative assembly.
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