Providing and maintaining recreational facilities - May be vested in an existing body - Powers of body
N.D. Cent. Code § 40-55-03
in effect40-55-03. Providing and maintaining recreational facilities - May be vested in an
existing body - Powers of body.
The governing body of any municipality, school district, or park district may establish a
system of public recreation and it may vest the power to provide, maintain, and conduct
playgrounds, community centers, recreation centers, and other recreation and
character-building areas, structures, facilities, and activities in any existing municipal body, in
the school district, in the park district, or in a recreation board or commission, as the governing
body may determine. Any board, commission, or other body so designated shall have the
authority to maintain and conduct community centers, playgrounds, recreation centers, and
other recreation and character-building areas, structures, facilities, and activities. For the
purpose of carrying out the provisions of this chapter, it may employ play leaders, playground
and recreation center directors, supervisors, recreation superintendents, and such other
employees as it deems proper.
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