N.D. Cent. Code § 54-16-09
The emergency commission, upon the advice of the office of management and budget, may order a transfer of spending authority from the state contingencies appropriation, which must be deducted from the state contingencies line item in the appropriation to the office of management and budget and added to the appropriate line item in the appropriation of the state officer who requested the transfer. The emergency commission, with approval of the budget section of the legislative management if the amount under consideration exceeds fifty thousand dollars, shall certify, by an approved motion recorded in its minutes, that the material, services, or purposes for which the authority was transferred are necessary and proper expenditures and, if an appropriation for that purpose was made by the legislative assembly, that the appropriation for that purpose is insufficient. Approval by the budget section of the legislative management is not required if the transfer is necessary to avoid an imminent threat to the safety of people or property due to a natural disaster or war crisis or an imminent financial loss to the state.
N.D.C.C. § 54-16-09