Title 6 — Crimes and Criminal Procedure
52 chapters · 631 sections in this title.
6 CMC § 2301 Importation of Contraband
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TITLE 6: CRIMES AND CRIMINAL PROCEDURE DIVISION 2: CONTRABAND OFFENSES § 2301 § 2301. Importation of Contraband. (a) It shall be unlawful for any person to knowingly enter the Commonwealth, with the intent to import, or to cause another to bring or import into the Commonwealth, o…
6 CMC § 2302 Enforcement
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TITLE 6: CRIMES AND CRIMINAL PROCEDURE DIVISION 2: CONTRABAND OFFENSES § 2302. Enforcement. (a) The Customs Service, a division of the Department of Finance, shall have the primary responsibility and authority to enforce the provisions of this chapter. This authority shall be con…
6 CMC § 2303 Forfeiture
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TITLE 6: CRIMES AND CRIMINAL PROCEDURE DIVISION 2 : CONTRABAND OFFENSES § 2303. Forfeiture. All items of contraband as defined by 6 CMC § 2301 shall be subject to forfeiture pursuant to 6 CMC § 2150. Source: PL 6-38, § 2 (§ 2303); amended by PL 7-38, § 2, modified; (b) repealed b…
6 CMC § 2304 Jurisdiction
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TITLE 6: CRIMES AND CRIMINAL PROCEDURE DIVISION 2 : CONTRABAND OFFENSES § 2304. Jurisdiction. (a) The jurisdiction of the Customs Service shall include all official customs points of entry into the Commonwealth and points of exit out of the Commonwealth as follows, as well as any…
6 CMC § 2305 Tampering Prohibited
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TITLE 6: CRIMES AND CRIMINAL PROCEDURE DIVISION 2: CONTRABAND OFFENSES § 2305. Tampering Prohibited. If the owner, or his authorized representative, is the consignee of any cargo, commodities, merchandise or goods of any and all description, for personal use or for profit, enteri…
6 CMC § 2306 Declaring of Export of Currency
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TITLE 6: CRIMES AND CRIMINAL PROCEDURE DIVISION 2: CONTRABAND OFFENSES § 2306. Declaration of Export of Currency. (a) It shall be unlawful for any person to knowingly depart the Commonwealth with intent to export, or attempt to cause another to take out or export outside the Comm…
6 CMC § 301 Attempts
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TITLE 6: CRIMES AND CRIMINAL PROCEDURE GENERAL PROVISIONS § 301. Attempts. (a) A person commits the offense of attempt if, with intent to commit an offense, he does an overt act which constitutes a substantial step in a course of conduct planned to culminate in the commission of …
6 CMC § 302 Solicitation
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TITLE 6: CRIMES AND CRIMINAL PROCEDURE GENERAL PROVISIONS § 302. Solicitation. (a) A person commits the offense of solicitation, if, with intent to promote or facilitate the commission of an offense, that person commands, encourages, or requests another person to engage in the ac…
6 CMC § 303 Conspiracy
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TITLE 6: CRIMES AND CRIMINAL PROCEDURE GENERAL PROVISIONS § 303. Conspiracy. (a) A person commits the offense of conspiracy if, with intent to promote or facilitate the commission of an offense: (1) The person agrees with one or more other persons that they, or one or more of the…
6 CMC § 304 Penalties for Attempt, Solicitation, and Conspiracy
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TITLE 6: CRIMES AND CRIMINAL PROCEDURE GENERAL PROVISIONS § 304. Penalties for Attempt, Solicitation, and Conspiracy. (a) A person convicted of attempt or solicitation shall be punished: (1) If the maximum sentence provided for the offense which was the object of the attempt or s…
6 CMC § 3301 Compounding a Crime
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TITLE 6: CRIMES AND CRIMINAL PROCEDURES DIVISION 3: MISCELLANEOUS OFFENSES § 3301. Compounding a Crime. Every person who, having knowledge that a crime has been, is being, or is about to be committed, shall unlawfully, knowingly, and willfully agree for a reward not to prosecute …
6 CMC § 3302 Obstructing Justice: Interference with Law Enforcement Officer or Witness
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TITLE 6: CRIMES AND CRIMINAL PROCEDURES DIVISION 3: MISCELLANEOUS OFFENSES § 3302. Obstructing Justice: Interference with Law Enforcement Officer or Witness. Every person who unlawfully resists or interferes with any law enforcement officer in the lawful pursuit of his or her dut…
6 CMC § 3303 Obstructing Justice: Interference with Service of Process
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TITLE 6: CRIMES AND CRIMINAL PROCEDURES DIVISION 3: MISCELLANEOUS OFFENSES § 3303. Obstructing Justice: Interference with Service of Process. Every person who, knowingly and willfully obstructs, resists, or opposes any chief of police, policeman or other person duly authorized, i…
6 CMC § 3304 Tampering with Judicial Records or Process
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TITLE 6: CRIMES AND CRIMINAL PROCEDURE DIVISION 3: MISCELLANEOUS OFFENSES § 3304. Tampering with Judicial Records or Process. Every person who willfully and unlawfully conceals, removes, takes away, mutilates, obliterates, alters (including the alteration of any document displayi…
6 CMC § 3305 Tampering with Jury
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TITLE 6: CRIMES AND CRIMINAL PROCEDURES DIVISION 3: MISCELLANEOUS OFFENSES § 3305. Tampering with Jury. Every person who, directly or indirectly, gives, offers or promises anything of value to a juror, or a member of his or her immediate family, with the intent to influence the d…
6 CMC § 3306 Perjury
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TITLE 6: CRIMES AND CRIMINAL PROCEDURES DIVISION 3: MISCELLANEOUS OFFENSES § 3306. Perjury. Every person who takes an oath or any legal substitute for an oath before a competent tribunal, officer, or person, in any case in which a law of the Commonwealth authorizes an oath or any…
6 CMC § 3307 Contempt
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TITLE 6: CRIMES AND CRIMINAL PROCEDURES DIVISION 3: MISCELLANEOUS OFFENSES § 3307. Contempt. Every person who unlawfully, knowingly, and willfully interferes directly with the operation and function of a court, by open defiance of an order, in or near the courtroom; or by disturb…
6 CMC § 3321 Title
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TITLE 6: CRIMES AND CRIMINAL PROCEDURES DIVISION 3: MISCELLANEOUS OFFENSES § 3321. Title. This article shall be cited as the Department of Public Safety Uniforms Act. Source: PL 9-10, § 1. Commission Comment: PL 9-10 took effect October 11, 1994. According to PL 9-10, § 2: Sectio…
6 CMC § 3322 Identification of Uniforms
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TITLE 6: CRIMES AND CRIMINAL PROCEDURES DIVISION 3: MISCELLANEOUS OFFENSES § 3322. Identification of Uniforms. The Director of the Department of Public Safety or his designee shall cause to be published the official uniforms, insignia and badges of the police officers, correction…
6 CMC § 3323 Change of Uniforms
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TITLE 6: CRIMES AND CRIMINAL PROCEDURES DIVISION 3: MISCELLANEOUS OFFENSES § 3323. Change of Uniforms. A person shall replace his or her uniform if such uniform is identical with the uniforms prescribed under 6 CMC § 3322 within 30 days following the publication in the Commonweal…
6 CMC § 3324 Impersonating an Officer
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TITLE 6: CRIMES AND CRIMINAL PROCEDURES DIVISION 3: MISCELLANEOUS OFFENSES § 3324. Impersonating an Officer. A person commits the offense of impersonating an officer if the person pretends to be an officer or falsely assumes or exercises the functions, duties, powers and privileg…
6 CMC § 3325 Unlawful Wearing of Officer's Uniform, Insignia or Badge
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TITLE 6: CRIMES AND CRIMINAL PROCEDURES DIVISION 3: MISCELLANEOUS OFFENSES § 3325. Unlawful Wearing of Officer’s Uniform, Insignia or Badge. A person commits the offense of unlawful wearing of an officer’s uniform, insignia or badge if, not being a sworn police officer, correctio…
6 CMC § 3326 Penalty
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TITLE 6: CRIMES AND CRIMINAL PROCEDURES DIVISION 3: MISCELLANEOUS OFFENSES § 3326. Penalty. Any person found to have committed the offense of impersonating an officer while facilitating the commission of a misdemeanor shall be fined $500 or imprisoned for not more than one year o…
6 CMC § 5311 Purposes of Chapter
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TITLE 6: CRIMES AND CRIMINAL PROCEDURE DIVISION 5: JUVENILE JUSTICE § 5311. Purposes of Chapter. This chapter seeks to: (a) Ensure that each abused child and the child's family receives such care, preferably in their own home, as will serve the emotional, mental, and physical wel…
6 CMC § 5312 Child Abuse: Defined
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TITLE 6: CRIMES AND CRIMINAL PROCEDURE § 5312 DIVISION 5: JUVENILE JUSTICE § 5312. Child Abuse: Defined. (a) A person commits the offense of child abuse if the person: (1) Willfully and intentionally strikes, beats or by any other act or omission inflicts physical pain, injury or…
6 CMC § 5313 Duty to Report Incidents of Child Abuse
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TITLE 6: CRIMES AND CRIMINAL PROCEDURE DIVISION 5: JUVENILE JUSTICE § 5313. Duty to Report Incidents of Child Abuse. (a) Any health care worker, school teacher or other school official, day care provider, counselor, social worker, peace officer or other law enforcement official w…
6 CMC § 5314 Immunity from Liability for Good-Faith Efforts to Report
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TITLE 6: CRIMES AND CRIMINAL PROCEDURE DIVISION 5: JUVENILE JUSTICE § 5314. Immunity from Liability for Good-Faith Efforts to Report. Any person making a good faith effort to make a report under this chapter shall be immune from any and all civil or criminal liability which might…
6 CMC § 5315 Criminal Penalties for Failure to Report
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TITLE 6: CRIMES AND CRIMINAL PROCEDURE DIVISION 5: JUVENILE JUSTICE § 5315. Criminal Penalties for Failure to Report. Knowing or willful failure of any person required to make any report or notification required under this chapter shall, upon conviction, be punished by imprisonme…
6 CMC § 5316 Criminal Penalties for Interfering With Good Faith Efforts to Report
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TITLE 6: CRIMES AND CRIMINAL PROCEDURE DIVISION 5: JUVENILE JUSTICE § 5316. Criminal Penalties for Interfering With Good Faith Efforts to Report. Knowing or willful interference by any person with the good-faith efforts of any person making or attempting to make a report under th…
6 CMC § 5317 Privileges Not Applicable
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TITLE 6: CRIMES AND CRIMINAL PROCEDURE DIVISION 5: JUVENILE JUSTICE § 5317. Privileges Not Applicable. Common law and statutory privileges as to communications between husband and wife, and a professional person and his patient or client, except for that between attorney and clie…
6 CMC § 5321 Protection of Abused Children: Protective Custody
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TITLE 6: CRIMES AND CRIMINAL PROCEDURE DIVISION 5: JUVENILE JUSTICE § 5321. Protection of Abused Children: Protective Custody. (a) A police or law enforcement official, Division of Youth Services worker, or any physician treating a child may take a child into protective custody w…
6 CMC § 5322 Protection of Abused: Investigation
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TITLE 6: CRIMES AND CRIMINAL PROCEDURE DIVISION 5: JUVENILE JUSTICE § 5322. Protection of Abused: Investigation. If a child is taken into custody, the Division of Youth Services shall immediately commence a child protective investigation to determine if it is necessary to make th…
6 CMC § 5323 Protection of Abused Children: Court Procedures
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TITLE 6: CRIMES AND CRIMINAL PROCEDURE DIVISION 5: JUVENILE JUSTICE § 5323. Protection of Abused Children: Court Procedures. (a) The child shall be released within 48 hours unless during that period the Office of the Attorney General files a petition in the Superior Court to have…
6 CMC § 5324 Protection of Abused Children: Wardship
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TITLE 6: CRIMES AND CRIMINAL PROCEDURE DIVISION 5: JUVENILE JUSTICE § 5324. Protection of Abused Children: Wardship. (a) Within 30 days of a temporary wardship finding, the court shall determine whether the wardship should be continued. In order to continue a wardship, the Office…
6 CMC § 5325 Confidentiality of Records
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TITLE 6: CRIMES AND CRIMINAL PROCEDURE DIVISION 5: JUVENILE JUSTICE § 5325. Confidentiality of Records. (a) All written reports made as well as any other information obtained, or photographs or x-rays taken concerning alleged instances of child abuse shall be confidential and sha…
6 CMC § 6301 Name in Which Prosecution Conducted
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TITLE 6: CRIMES AND CRIMINAL PROCEDURE DIVISION 6: CRIMINAL PROCEDURE § 6301. Name in Which Prosecution Conducted. All criminal prosecutions shall be conducted in the name of the “Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands.” Source: 12 TTC § 201.
6 CMC § 6302 Rights of Criminal Defendants
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TITLE 6: CRIMES AND CRIMINAL PROCEDURE DIVISION 6: CRIMINAL PROCEDURE § 6302. Rights of Criminal Defendants. Every defendant in a criminal case in the Commonwealth is entitled: (a) To have in advance of trial a copy of the charge upon which the defendant is to be tried; (b) To co…
6 CMC § 6303 Pretrial Procedure
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TITLE 6: CRIMES AND CRIMINAL PROCEDURE DIVISION 6: CRIMINAL PROCEDURE § 6303. Pretrial Procedure. (a) If the arrested person does not waive preliminary examination, the official shall hear the evidence within a reasonable time. (b) A reasonable continuance shall be granted at the…
6 CMC § 10401 Gun free zones
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TITLE 6: CRIMES AND CRIMINAL PROCEDURE DIVISION 10: SPECIAL ACT FOR FIREARMS ENFORCEMENT (SAFE) § 10401. Gun free zones. (a) No person in the Commonwealth, other than duly authorized law enforcement officers in the exercise of their duties, shall knowingly possess a firearm in an…
6 CMC § 10402 Gun free zones: criminal penalty
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TITLE 6: CRIMES AND CRIMINAL PROCEDURE DIVISION 10: SPECIAL ACT FOR FIREARMS ENFORCEMENT (SAFE) § 10402. Gun free zones: criminal penalty. It shall be a felony punishable by a fine of not more than $10,000 or imprisonment for not more than 10 years, or both, for any person to kno…
6 CMC § 10403 Gun free zones: civil cause of action
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TITLE 6: CRIMES AND CRIMINAL PROCEDURE DIVISION 10: SPECIAL ACT FOR FIREARMS ENFORCEMENT (SAFE) § 10403. Gun free zones: civil cause of action. (a) If a person possesses a firearm on private property in violation of 6 CMC §10401(a)(18), then the property owner may institute and p…
6 CMC § 10404 Gun free zones: exceptions
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TITLE 6: CRIMES AND CRIMINAL PROCEDURE DIVISION 10: SPECIAL ACT FOR FIREARMS ENFORCEMENT (SAFE) § 10404. Gun free zones: exceptions. (a) The provisions of this chapter regarding the possession of firearms do not apply to: (1) United States Marshals while engaged in the operation …
6 CMC § 1411 Robbery
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TITLE 6: CRIMES AND CRIMINAL PROCEDURE DIVISION 1: CRIMES AGAINST THE PERSON § 1411. Robbery. (a) A person commits the offense of robbery if he or she takes property from the person of another, or from the immediate control of another, by use or threatened use of immediate force …
6 CMC § 1421 Kidnapping
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TITLE 6: CRIMES AND CRIMINAL PROCEDURE DIVISION 1: CRIMES AGAINST THE PERSON § 1421. Kidnapping. (a) A person commits the offense of kidnapping: (1) If he or she unlawfully removes another from the victim’s place of residence or business or a substantial distance from the vicinit…
6 CMC § 1422 False Arrest
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TITLE 6: CRIMES AND CRIMINAL PROCEDURE DIVISION 1: CRIMES AGAINST THE PERSON § 1422. False Arrest. (a) A person commits the offense of false arrest if he or she unlawfully detains another by force and against the other person’s will, then and there not being in possession of auth…
6 CMC § 1431 Criminal Coercion
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TITLE 6: CRIMES AND CRIMINAL PROCEDURE DIVISION 1: CRIMES AGAINST THE PERSON § 1431. Criminal Coercion. (a) A person commits the offense of criminal coercion if he or she intentionally compels or induces another person to engage in conduct from which the victim has a legal right …
6 CMC § 1432 Usurping Control of Aircraft
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TITLE 6: CRIMES AND CRIMINAL PROCEDURE DIVISION 1: CRIMES AGAINST THE PERSON § 1432. Usurping Control of Aircraft. (a) A person commits an offense if, by force, threat of force, or deception he or she usurps and controls directly or through another an aircraft. (b) A person convi…
6 CMC § 1433 Mutiny on a Vessel
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TITLE 6: CRIMES AND CRIMINAL PROCEDURE DIVISION 1: CRIMES AGAINST THE PERSON § 1433. Mutiny on a Vessel. (a) A person commits an offense if, by force, threat of force, or deception, he or she usurps command of a vessel. (b) A person convicted under this section may be punished: (…
6 CMC § 1434 Resisting Arrest
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TITLE 6: CRIMES AND CRIMINAL PROCEDURE DIVISION 1: CRIMES AGAINST THE PERSON § 1434. Resisting Arrest. (a) A person who willfully resists, delays, or obstructs any law enforcement officer, in the discharge, or attempt to discharge, any duty of his or her office commits the offens…
6 CMC § 1451 Title
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TITLE 6: CRIMES AND CRIMINAL PROCEDURE DIVISION 1: CRIMES AGAINST THE PERSON § 1451. Title. This article shall be known and cited as the Commonwealth “Man-Amko” Physical Abuse and Mental Cruelty Act. Source: PL 9-21, § 1, modified. Commission Comment: PL 9-21 took effect January …