TITLE 6: CRIMES AND CRIMINAL PROCEDURE DIVISION 10: SPECIAL ACT FOR FIREARMS ENFORCEMENT (SAFE)
§ 10209. Voluntary surrender of firearms, destructive devices, or ammunition; immunity from prosecution; determination of evidentiary value of firearm. (a) If a person or organization within the Commonwealth voluntarily and peaceably delivers and abandons to the Department of Public Safety any firearm, destructive device or ammunition at any time, such delivery shall preclude the arrest and prosecution of such person on a charge of violating any provision of this Division with respect to the firearm, destructive device, or ammunition voluntarily delivered. Delivery under this section may be made at any police station or by summoning a police officer to the person’s residence or place of business. Every firearm and destructive device to be delivered and abandoned to the Chief under this section shall be transported in accordance with 6 CMC § 10206 and, in the case of delivery to a police facility, the package shall be carried in open view. (b) No person who delivers and abandons a firearm, destructive device, or ammunition in full compliance with this section, shall be required to furnish identification, photographs, or fingerprints. (c) Whenever any firearm, destructive device, or any ammunition is surrendered under this section, the Department of Public Safety shall inspect the firearm and determine if it is needed as evidence in a Commonwealth or federal case; provided, that if the same is not needed as evidence, it shall be destroyed. Source: PL 19-42 § 6 (Apr. 11, 2016), modified. Commission Comment: The Commission numbered this section pursuant to 1 CMC § 3806(a). The Commission changed the reference number “§ 206 of this Chapter” in subsection (a) to “6 CMC § 10206” to agree with the renumbered section pursuant to 1 CMC § 3806(c).