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CRIMES officer, and each of said officers shall assist the superintendent in the performance of his duties by complying with such rules and regulations.

§ 20. Money Collected Paid Into General Fund.) All moneys collected or received, including all rewards for the apprehension or conviction of any criminal earned or collected by the superintendent, the chief of the bureau, his assistants, or any employee of his office, shall be paid into the general fund of the state.

§ 21.) The bureau shall work and cooperate with the commission on peace officers' standards and training as heretofore established in the fields specified in section 54-50-02 of the 1963 Supplement to the North Dakota Century Code and in such other related fields as said commission and the bureau may deem feasible.

§ 22. Bureau to Act as a Consumer Fraud Bureau and to Cooperate with Other Agencies in Detection, Investigation, and Enforcement of Laws and Regulations with Regard to Consumer Fraud.) The bureau shall also act as a consumer fraud bureau with regard to the use or employment by any person of any deceptive act or practice, fraud, false pretense, false promise, or misrepresentation with the intent that others rely thereon in connection with the sale or advertisement of any merchandise, whether or not any person has in fact been misled, deceived, or damaged thereby, and shall make full investigation of such activities, maintain adequate facilities for filing reports, examining persons and merchandise in regard thereto, storing impounded books, records, accounts, papers and samples of merchandise relating to same. The bureau shall further cooperate with other governmental agencies, national, state or local, and with all peace officers of the state in regard thereto.

§ 23. Repeal.) Chapter 12-58 of the North Dakota Century Code and all amendments thereto are hereby repealed.

Approved March 15, 1965.