§ 8511. County, subdivision and judicial subdivision defined. Whenever the terms, "county." " subdivision" or judicial subdivision are employed in this code, in defining or describing the territorial or local jurisdiction of any magistrate or court, or in restraining. Enlarging or otherwise conferring authority upon any court, officer or person of this state, they are deemed to be employed in the same sense and interchangeably, except when a different sense plainly appears: as for example:
1. The term "county" when so employed includes an organized county, or an organized county and such unorganized counties or other territory or parts of this state as now are or as may be hereafter, by law, attached to such organized county for judicial purposes.
2. The term "subdivision" when so employed includes an organized county, or an organized county and such unorganized county or counties, or other territory or parts of this state, as now are or as may be hereafter, by law, attached to such organized county for judicial purposes.
3. The term "judicial subdivision" when so employed, includes an organized county or an organized county and such unorganized county or counties, or other territory or parts of this state, as now are or as may be hereafter, by law, attached to such organized county for judicial purposes.
CHAPTER 17.
THE PENITENTIARY AND STATE REFORM SCHOOL.
ARTICLE 1.—THE PENITENTIARY.
§ 8512. Penitentiary at Bismarck. Continuation and use. The penitentiary located at Bismarck in the county of Burleigh, shall continue to be the general penitentiary and prison of this state, for the punishment and reformation of offenders against the laws thereof, and in which shall be securely confined, employed and governed in the manner provided by law, all offenders who have been or may be convicted or sentenced according to law, to the punishment of imprisonment or confinement therein.
§ 8513. Within jurisdiction of Burleigh county. The said penitentiary and the grounds and precincts thereof, for the purpose of all judicial proceedings shall be deemed to be within and a part of the county of Burleigh, and the courts of said county shall have jurisdiction of all crimes or public offenses committed within the same.
§ 8514. Who may serve process within. All process to be served within the grounds or precincts of said penitentiary, either upon persons confined therein or committed thereto, or upon persons or officers employed within the grounds or precincts of said penitentiary, except the warden, shall be served and returned by the warden; provided, that all persons committed to the penitentiary, and all persons or officers in charge of or caring for, any inmates or persons committed to said penitentiary, at any place, shall be deemed to be
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