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CRIMES
CHAPTER 116
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CHAPTER 116

SENATE BILL NO. 2045

(Freed, Page)

(From Legislative Council Study)

CRIMINAL LAW REVISION

AN ACT to create and enact chapters 12.1-01, 12.1-02, 12.1-03, 12.1-04, 12.1-05, 12.1-06, 12.1-07, 12.1--08, 12,1-09, 12.1-10, 12,1-11, 12.1-12, 12.1-13, 12.1-14, 12.1-15, 12.1-16, 12.1-17, 12.1-18, 12.1-19, 12.1-21, 12.1-22, 12.1-23, 12.1-24, 12.1-25, 12.1-26, 12.1-27, 12.1-28, 12,1-29, 12,1-30, 12.1-31, 12.1-32, and 12.1-33, and to create and enact sections 16-12-16, 29-03-01.1, and 29-03-21, all of the North Dakota Century Code, comprising & new criminal code defining all major offenses and providing penalties, providing for alternative sentencing limits and procedures, defining certain electoral offenses, providing jurisdiction over certain offenses commenced outside this state, and providing venue where the offense involves the mailing of a letter; to amend and reenact section 12-53-14, subsection 1 of section 12-55-07, and sections 12-59-17, 16-12-14, and 29-03-01 of the North Dakota Century Code, relating to parole board jurisdiction, to crimes committed partially without this state, and to criminal penalties for causing probationer or parolee to violate parole, to voting right challenges; to repeal chapters 12-01 through 12-06, chapters 12-08 through 12-21.1, chapters 12-23 through 12-29, chapters 12-31 through 12-43, chapter 12-50, chapter 12-54, and sections 12-07-01, 12-07-02, 12-07-03, 12-07-04, 12-07-05, 12-07-06, 12-22-01, 12-22-14, 12-22-15, 12-22-17, 12-22-19, 12-22-20, 12-22-21, 12-22-22, 12-22-23, 12-22-24, 12-22-25, 12-22-26, 12-22-27, 12-22-28, 12-22-29, 12-22-30, 12-55-21, 12-59-11, 12-59-13, 12-59-13.1, chapter 29-20, and sections 29-28-20 and 31-01-08 of the North Dakota Century Code, relating to definitions of various offenses, to posting notice of probation or parole hearings, to procedures for determining a defendant's mental capacity to stand trial, to provision for successive terms of imprisonment, and to indeterminate sentences; and providing an effective date.

BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATIVE ASSEMBLY OF THE STATE OF NORTH DAKOTA:

SECTION 1.) Chapter 12.1-01 of the North Dakota Century Code is hereby created and enacted to read as follows:

12.1-01-01. TITLE; RETROACTIVITY; APPLICATION; CONTEMPT POWER.)