Title 12.1 — Criminal Code

1. Title 12.1 of the Century Code may be cited as the North Dakota Criminal Code. 2. This title, except as provided in subsection 3, shall not apply to offenses committed prior to its effective date. Prosecutions for such offenses shall be governed by prior law, which is continue…

The general purposes of this title are to establish a system of prohibitions, penalties, and correctional measures to deal with conduct that unjustifiably and inexcusably causes or threatens harm to those individual or public interests for which governmental protection is appropr…

1. No person may be convicted of an offense unless each element of the offense is proved beyond a reasonable doubt. An accused is presumed innocent until proven guilty. The fact that the accused has been arrested, confined, or charged with the offense gives rise to no inference o…

1. In determining an individual's age for purposes of this title, the individual's date of birth as provided by any of the following is presumed to be the individual's legal date of birth: a. A state government in the form of a birth certificate, other state-issued identification…

As used in this title, unless a different meaning plainly is required: 1. "Absconded" means when a probationer, parolee, participant in a pretrial services program, or participant in a prosecution-led diversion program willfully avoids supervision by making their whereabouts unkn…