23.8090.01000
Sixty-eighth
Legislative Assembly SENATE BILL NO. 2105
of North Dakota
Introduced by
Judiciary Committee
(At the request of the Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation)
1 A BILL for an Act to amend and reenact subsection 8 of section 12-47-21 of the North Dakota
2 Century Code, relating to use of wireless electronic communications devices at the department
3 of corrections and rehabilitation; and to provide a penalty.
4 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATIVE ASSEMBLY OF NORTH DAKOTA:
5 SECTION 1. AMENDMENT. Subsection 8 of section 12-47-21 of the North Dakota Century
6 Code is amended and reenacted as follows:
7 8. a. It is unlawful for a penitentiary inmate to willfully manufacture, possess, or use a
8 wireless electronic communications device on or within any premises under the
9 control of the department of corrections and rehabilitation or any of its divisions
10 except for law enforcement purposesas authorized by the department of
11 corrections and rehabilitation.
12 b. It is unlawful for any person to willfully deliver, or possess with intent to deliver, a
13 wireless electronic communications device to a penitentiary inmate or to any
14 person for redelivery to a penitentiary inmate, or to allow a penitentiary inmate to
15 possess or use a wireless electronic communications device, on or within any
16 premises under the control of the department of corrections and rehabilitation or
17 any of its divisions except for law enforcement purposesas authorized by the
18 department of corrections and rehabilitation.
19 c. A violation of this subsection is a class C felony.
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Statutes affected:
INTRODUCED: 12-47-21
Enrollment: 12-47-21