N.D. Cent. Code § 24-02-09
Not later than the fifteenth day of May of each year, each head of a department, division, section, or activity of the department who may be directed and designated to do so by the director shall submit to the director an outline of the work which should be undertaken by such department, division, section, or activity during the following fiscal year and the estimated expense thereof, in such detail as the director may prescribe, together with such other cost data and information as the director shall direct.
Not later than the thirtieth day of June of each year, the director shall adopt a departmental budget wherein must be allocated, set aside, and appropriated to each department, division, section, or activity of the department for the ensuing fiscal year a definite and fixed sum or allowance in such amount and with such detail as the director may elect for the use and purpose specified in such departmental budget. Nothing herein, however, prevents the director from adding to, amending, revising, or reducing from time to time, and as circumstances may warrant, such departmental budget.
N.D.C.C. § 24-02-09