§ 34-05-03 — Officials and employers to furnish certain information - Records - Penalty

All public officers and all employers shall furnish to the labor commissioner such information
as the commissioner may request relating to their respective offices or businesses. Any
information collected, records, and determinations made under chapter 34-14, information
collected under this section from private employers, and information collected under section
34-06-02 from private employers are exempt from section 44-04-18. The commissioner shall
disclose information collected, records, and determinations made to the parties to an
investigation under chapter 34-14. When the commissioner enforces collection of a wage claim
by judicial action or forwards records, information, or determinations to another state or country
for enforcement as authorized under chapter 34-14, the information collected, records, and
determinations made under chapter 34-14 are open records. The commissioner may publish
aggregate employment-related statistics. The commissioner may provide a list of the names and
addresses of employers to other agencies or to a private entity for the purpose of jointly
publishing or distributing publications or other information as provided in section 54-06-04.3.
Any information so provided may only be used for the purpose of jointly publishing or distributing
publications or other information as provided in section 54-06-04.3. Any officer, employer, or
operator or manager of any establishment wherein persons are employed, who fails or refuses
to furnish the commissioner with the information requested under the provisions of this section,
is guilty of a class B misdemeanor.