N.D. Cent. Code § 6-06-12

6-06-12. Directors - Duties and powers - Loan limitations

1. The directors shall have general management of the credit union, and it is their duty

particularly:

a. To act on applications for membership, unless a membership officer is appointed.

b. To determine interest rates on loans and deposits or designate a representative

to determine these rates.

c. To fix, subject to the approval of the commissioner, the amount of surety bond

which must be required of all officers and employees handling money.

d. To declare dividends.

e. To transmit to the members recommendations for changes in the bylaws.

f. To fill vacancies on the board of directors and on the credit committee who shall

serve until their successors are chosen and qualified.

g. To determine the maximum individual shareholdings and the maximum aggregate

liability to the credit union of any one borrower but such maximum aggregate

liability allowed by the board may not exceed the amounts listed in the following

schedule:

Total Assets Loan Limit

0 to 70,000 10% with a limit of 5,000

70,001 to 100,000 6,000 limit

100,001 to 200,000 8,000 limit

200,001 to 300,000 10,000 limit

300,001 to 400,000 12,000 limit

400,001 to 500,000 14,000 limit

over 500,000 3% of assets

For purposes of this subsection, the aggregate liability of one borrower to a

credit union includes the total direct, indirect, and contingent liabilities of the

borrower, and the liabilities of separate borrowers for which the repayment of

separate loans or extensions of credit is substantially from the same source. The

aggregate liability of any one borrower to the credit union does not include any

loan or portion of a loan guaranteed by the government, to the extent of the

guarantee, nor any loan secured by shares in the credit union, to the extent of the

security.

In all cases a credit union is allowed to loan up to and including two hundred

dollars to any individual regardless of the amount of total assets in said credit

union. Provided, that the foregoing provisions do not apply to the North Dakota

central credit union.

h. To supervise and control investments other than loans to members.

i. To establish a schedule of fines for delinquency in the payment of principal or

interest, which the board shall impose at its discretion.

2. The board may appoint membership officers authorized to approve applications for

membership under such conditions as the board may prescribe; except that such

membership officers so authorized shall submit to the board at each monthly meeting

a list of approved or pending applications for membership received since the previous

monthly meeting, together with such other related information as the bylaws or the

board may require.

3. No immediate family member of the president, general manager, or chief executive

officer of the credit union may serve on the board of directors of the credit union.

4. A majority of the board of directors of a credit union may not be immediate family

members of each other.