N.D. Cent. Code § 54-17-24
54-17-24. State trusts created
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.