§ 21-06-09 — Authorization to make loans or accept grants

The state, any of its departments, boards, bureaus, or commissions, by and with the
approval of the governor, may make loans, or accept advances from the federal government,
any agency or instrumentality thereof, for the purpose of aiding in financing the cost of
architectural, engineering, and economic investigations and studies, surveys, designs, plans,
working drawings, specifications, procedures, and other actions preliminary to the construction
of public works and improvements, and may repay to the federal government, any of its
agencies or instrumentalities thereof, such loans or advances at such times as the construction
of said public works or improvements so planned are undertaken; and any county, city, park
district, school district, and township, may likewise, by action of the governing body of the same,
also make such loans and accept such advances and repay the same in the same manner.
Such loans made or grants accepted may be made or accepted under such rules and

regulations as the federal government, or any of its agencies or instrumentalities may prescribe.
Provided, however, that neither the state, any of its boards, bureaus, departments, or
commissions, nor any of the political subdivisions enumerated herein may incur any liability for
the payment of such loans or advances unless the actual construction of such public works and
improvements is undertaken; and provided, further, that the provisions of this section may not
be construed to apply to loans, grants, or advances to the department of transportation made or
to be made by the federal government, any agency or instrumentality thereof, or to such loans,
grants, or advances made to political subdivisions by the said department of transportation.