§ 52-01-02 — Employing unit to keep records - Reports of employing unit - Public inspection prohibited - Exception - Penalty

inspection prohibited - Exception - Penalty.
All records, including electronic records as defined in section 9-16-01, of the employers
doing business in this state showing or reflecting in any way upon the amount of wage
expenditure by or upon payments for services performed for those employers are always open
for inspection by employees of job service North Dakota who are assigned responsibility to do
so for the purpose of ascertaining the correctness of the reports, wage expenditures, the
number of employees, and any other information necessary for the agency to administer this
title. An employer who refuses to submit the employer's records, including electronic records as
defined in section 9-16-01, for inspection by an identified and assigned employee of job service
North Dakota is subject to a civil penalty of five hundred dollars for each offense. The agency
shall collect the penalty by civil action in the name of the state and shall deposit any penalty
collected under this section to the credit of the fund established by section 52-04-22. Information
obtained pursuant to this section may not be published or be open to public inspection, other
than to public employees in the performance of their public duties, in any manner revealing the
employing unit's identity, but any claimant or the claimant's legal representative at a hearing
before a hearing officer or the agency must be supplied with information from such records to
the extent necessary for the proper presentation of the appeal.