Title 12.1 — Criminal Code

1. A person is guilty of an offense if that person: a. Willfully causes bodily injury to another human being; or b. Negligently causes bodily injury to another human being by means of a firearm, destructive device, or other weapon, the use of which against a human being is likely…

A person is guilty of a class A misdemeanor, except if the victim is under the age of twelve years in which case the offense is a class C felony, if that person: 1. Willfully causes substantial bodily injury to another human being; or 2. Negligently causes substantial bodily inju…

1. For purposes of this section "family or household member" means family or household member as defined in section 14-07.1-01. 2. A person is guilty of an offense if that person willfully causes: a. Bodily injury to the actor's family or household member; b. Substantial bodily i…

1. Except as provided in subsection 2, a person is guilty of a class C felony if that person: a. Willfully causes serious bodily injury to another human being; b. Knowingly causes bodily injury or substantial bodily injury to another human being with a dangerous weapon or other w…

An individual is guilty of an offense if the individual creates a substantial risk of serious bodily injury or death to another. The offense is a class B felony if the individual uses a firearm. The offense is a class C felony if the circumstances manifest the individual's extrem…

A person is guilty of a class C felony if, with intent to place another human being in fear for that human being's or another's safety or to cause evacuation of a building, place of assembly, or facility of public transportation, or otherwise to cause serious disruption or public…

1. As used in this section: a. "Domestic terrorism" means an activity conducted within the geographical boundaries of the state which: (1) Is done in cooperation with any federally designated terrorist organization that threatens or appears to threaten the sovereignty of the stat…

A person is guilty of a class A misdemeanor if he knowingly places or attempts to place another human being in fear by menacing him with imminent serious bodily injury.

1. A person is guilty of a class A misdemeanor if, with intent to compel another to engage in or refrain from conduct, he threatens to: a. Commit any crime; b. Accuse anyone of a crime; c. Expose a secret or publicize an asserted fact, whether true or false, tending to subject an…

1. As used in this section "robot" means an artificial object or system that senses, processes, and acts using technology, including the associated elements, communication links, and artificial intelligence. The term includes remotely piloted aircraft. 2. A person is guilty of an…

1. As used in this section: a. "Course of conduct" means a pattern of conduct consisting of two or more acts evidencing a continuity of purpose. The term includes an act conducted with a robot in the direct control of the person. The term does not include constitutionally protect…

1. As used in this section: a. "Distribute" means selling, exhibiting, displaying, wholesaling, retailing, providing, giving, granting admission to, providing access to, or otherwise transferring or presenting an image to another individual, with or without consideration. b. "Hos…

1. When conduct is an offense because it causes or threatens bodily injury, consent to such conduct or to the infliction of such injury by all persons injured or threatened by the conduct is a defense if: a. Neither the injury inflicted nor the injury threatened is such as to jeo…

1. A person is guilty of a class C felony and is subject to a civil penalty of up to ten thousand dollars if that person willfully and unjustifiably kills, shoots, tortures, torments, beats, kicks, strikes, mutilates, disables, or otherwise injures a law enforcement support anima…

A person is guilty of an offense when, in the course of another person's initiation into or affiliation with any organization, the person willfully engages in conduct that creates a substantial risk of physical injury to that other person or a third person. As used in this sectio…

1. An individual is guilty of an offense if the individual causes blood, emesis, excrement, mucus, saliva, semen, vaginal fluid, or urine to come in contact with: a. A law enforcement officer acting in the scope of employment; b. An employee of a correctional facility or the depa…

A person is guilty of a class A felony if that person negligently causes the death of another or a class B felony if that person negligently causes serious bodily injury to another while in violation of section 39-10-71.

1. As used in this section, "intimate partner" means an offender's spouse, former spouse, current dating partner, recent former dating partner, or another individual with whom the offender has a child in common regardless of whether the offender and the individual are or have bee…

1. As used in this section: a. "Abortion" means the act of using or prescribing any instrument, medicine, drug, or any other substance, device, or means with the intent to terminate the clinically diagnosable intrauterine pregnancy of a woman, including the elimination of one or …