Title 12.1, Criminal Code

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

It is a class C felony for a person, other than the pregnant female upon whom the abortion was performed, to perform an abortion.

This chapter does not apply to: 1. An abortion deemed necessary based on reasonable medical judgment which was intended to prevent the death or a serious health risk to the pregnant female. 2. An abortion to terminate a pregnancy that based on reasonable medical judgment resulted…

In this chapter, unless the context otherwise requires: 1. "Animal" means any living organism that is used in food, fur, or fiber production, agriculture, research, testing, or education. The term does not include a human being, plant, or bacteria. 2. "Animal facility" means any …

No person without the effective consent of the owner may: 1. Intentionally damage or destroy an animal facility, an animal or property in or on the animal facility, or any enterprise conducted at the animal facility. 2. Acquire or otherwise exercise control over an animal facilit…

No person may without the effective consent of the owner, and with the intent to damage the enterprise conducted at the animal facility, enter or remain on an animal facility, if the person had notice that the entry was forbidden or received notice to depart but failed to do so. …

A person who violates subsection 1 of section 12.1-21.1-02 is guilty of a class B felony if there is damage of ten thousand dollars or more, a class C felony if there is damage of at least five hundred dollars but less than ten thousand dollars, and a class A misdemeanor if there…

A person who has been damaged by reason of violation of this chapter may bring an action in the district court against the person causing the damage to recover an amount equal to three times all actual and consequential damages and court costs and reasonable attorney fees. This c…

A person is guilty of a class B misdemeanor if the person: 1. Knowingly obtains or attempts to obtain cable television service from another by any means, artifice, trick, deception, or device without the payment to the cable television operator of all lawful compensation for each…

1. Any person who violates subsection 1, 2, or 3 of section 12.1-23.1-01 is liable to the franchised or otherwise duly licensed cable television system for the greater of one thousand dollars or three times the amount of actual damages, if any, sustained by the system, plus reaso…

1. Any franchised or otherwise duly licensed cable television system may bring an action to enjoin and restrain violation of section 12.1-23.1-01 or an action for conversion, or both, and may in the same action seek damages as provided for in section 12.1-23.1-02. 2. Any communic…

This chapter shall not be construed to prevent the manufacture, importation, distribution, sale, offer for sale or rental, possession for sale, or advertisement for sale, any device, plan or kit for a device, or printed circuit, used by federally-licensed amateur radio (ham) oper…

1. A person is guilty of a class C felony if, knowing of its character, the person disseminates obscene material or if the person produces, transports, or sends obscene material with intent that it be disseminated. 2. A person is guilty of a class C felony if the person presents …

As used in this section and in section 12.1-27.1-03: 1. "Promote" means to produce, direct, manufacture, issue, sell, lend, mail, publish, distribute, exhibit, or advertise. 2. "Harmful to minors" means that quality of any description or representation, in whatever form of sexual…

1. It is a class C felony for a person, knowing of its character, to recklessly promote to a minor any material or performance which is harmful to minors, or to admit a minor to premises where a performance harmful to minors is exhibited or takes place. 2. It is a class C felony …

1. A person is guilty of a class B misdemeanor if he willfully displays at newsstands or any other business establishment frequented by minors, or where minors are or may be invited as a part of the general public, any photograph, book, paperback book, pamphlet, or magazine, the …

Any person who, knowing of its character, exhibits any motion picture rated X by the motion picture association of America in any outdoor theater where the screen is visible beyond the limits of the theater audience area, so that the motion picture may be seen and its content or …

1. A person is guilty of a class A misdemeanor if, knowing of its character and content, that person: a. Without written consent from each individual who has a reasonable expectation of privacy in the image, surreptitiously creates or willfully possesses a sexually expressive ima…

1. As used in this section: a. "Adult-oriented performance" means a performance that, regardless of whether or not performed for consideration, is intended to appeal to a prurient interest and features: (1) The purposeful exposure, whether complete or partial, of: (a) A human gen…

1. As used in this section: a. "Explicit sexual material" means any material which: (1) Taken as a whole, appeals to the prurient interest of minors; (2) Is patently offensive to prevailing standards in the adult community in North Dakota as a whole with respect to what is suitab…

Sections 12.1-27.1-01 and 12.1-27.1-03 shall not apply to the possession or distribution of material in the course of law enforcement, judicial, or legislative activities; or to the possession of material by a bona fide school, college, university, museum, or public library for l…

This chapter is applicable throughout the state, and a political subdivision may not enact new, or enforce existing, ordinances or resolutions regulating or prohibiting the dissemination of obscene materials, or controlling obscene or adult-oriented performances, except ordinance…

As used in this chapter: 1. "Computer-generated image" means an image or visual representation created through the use of artificial intelligence or other computer program. 2. "Minor" means an individual under eighteen years of age or a computer-generated image used, created, ada…

1. A person is guilty of a class A felony if, knowing the character and content of a performance, that person employs, authorizes, or induces a minor to engage in sexual conduct during a performance or, if being a parent, legal guardian, or custodian of a minor, that person conse…

A person is guilty of a class A felony if, knowing the character and content of a performance, that person produces, directs, or promotes any obscene performance which includes sexual conduct by a person who was a minor at the time of the performance.

A person is guilty of a class B felony if, knowing the character and content of a performance, that person produces, directs, or promotes any performance which includes sexual conduct by a person who was a minor at the time of the performance.

1. A person is guilty of a class C felony if, knowing of its character and content, that person knowingly possesses any motion picture, computer-generated image, photograph, or other visual representation that includes sexual conduct by a minor. 2. An individual violating this se…

1. Notwithstanding the provisions of sections 12.1-32-01 and 12.1-32-01.1 relating to fines, a person who commits an offense under this chapter and who acts in the course of a commercial or for-profit activity or transaction in which the offender had or shared ownership, control,…

It is an affirmative defense to a prosecution under this chapter that: 1. The defendant in good faith reasonably believed the person appearing in the performance was eighteen years of age or older, if the minor was in fact fifteen years of age or older; or 2. The material or perf…

When it becomes necessary under this chapter to determine whether a minor participated in a sexual performance, the trier of fact may base its determination on personal inspection of the minor, inspection of a photograph or motion picture of the sexual performance, testimony by a…

1. a. If an individual is charged with, arrested for, or subject to a sentence or order deferring imposition of sentence for a crime of violence or threat of violence, stalking, harassment, or a sex offense, the court authorizing the release of the individual, imposing a sentence…

As used in this chapter: 1. "Health care provider" means a licensed physician, physician assistant, nurse, or a certified medical assistant. 2. "Minor" means an individual under the age of eighteen. The term includes an emancipated individual. 3. "Sex" means the biological state …

1. Except as provided under section 12.1-36.1-03, if a minor's perception of the minor's sex is inconsistent with the minor's sex, a health care provider may not engage in any of the following practices for the purpose of changing or affirming the minor's perception of the minor'…

Section 12.1-36.1-02 does not apply: 1. To the good-faith medical decision of a parent or guardian of a minor born with a medically verifiable genetic disorder of sex development, including: a. A minor with external biological sex characteristics that are irresolvably ambiguous, …

Notwithstanding the limitations of section 29-04-02, prosecution for a violation of section 12.1-36.1-02 must be commenced within three years of the date of the offense or within three years after the offense is reported to law enforcement, whichever is later.