§ 65-06-04 — Assessment of premiums

For the purpose of making assessments of premiums to be charged against municipalities
for protection of volunteer firefighters, emergency or disaster volunteers, volunteer health
practitioners, and community emergency response team members, the organization shall make
such survey as may seem advisable to ascertain the probable annual expenditures necessary
to be paid out of the fund to carry out this chapter, and shall fix the annual charges and
assessments which must be made against municipalities employing volunteer firefighters,
emergency or disaster volunteers, volunteer health practitioners, and community emergency
response team members. The charge must be a fixed sum for each one hundred of the
population of the municipality involved and uniform as to all such involved municipalities but in
proportion to the population of the municipality. In determining the amount of premium charge,
the organization may apply the system of experience rating provided in this title, as applied to
other risks. The organization may establish a minimum charge or assessment to be applicable
to any municipality for which the fixed rate or charge multiplied by the number of hundreds of
the population of the municipality would amount to less than the amount of the minimum charge
or assessment. The population of a municipality shall be that shown by the latest official North
Dakota state or United States government census, whichever may be the later.