N.D. Cent. Code § 61-31-10
The commissioner is authorized to receive funds for this program from any private or public source, and is also authorized to receive any funds from any North Dakota state agency, which have been specifically authorized for that purpose by the legislative assembly. The commissioner shall work with the governor, director of the game and fish department, United States fish and wildlife service, nonprofit conservation organizations, and any other public official or private organization or citizen to develop sources of funding to implement this chapter.
All funds received by the commissioner from any private or public source and from any North Dakota state agency as well as all funds appropriated by the legislative assembly for implementing this chapter must be transferred to a special fund in the state treasury, which is hereby created, to be known as the state waterbank fund. The state waterbank fund and interest earned thereon is hereby appropriated as a standing and continuing appropriation solely for the purpose of implementing this chapter, including payment of money due upon waterbank agreements entered under this chapter.
N.D.C.C. § 61-31-10