N.D. Cent. Code § 26.1-03-22: State auditor to make examination when commissioner is disqualified

If the commissioner is a director, officer, agent, attorney, or stockholder of, or is interested directly in, any insurance company except as an insured, the state auditor or a person appointed by the state auditor shall examine the company. No officer or agent of any insurance company doing business in this state may be appointed to examine the affairs of the company.