N.D. Cent. Code § 23-02.1-32

Current through 2023 Legislative Sessions
Section 23-02.1-32 - Penalties
1.
a. Any person who willfully and knowingly makes any false statement in a report, record, or certificate required to be filed under this chapter, or in application for an amendment thereof, or who willfully and knowingly supplies false information intending that such information be used in the preparation of any such report, record, or certificate, or amendment thereof;
b. Any person who, without lawful authority and with the intent to deceive, makes, alters, or mutilates any report, record, or certificate required to be filed under this chapter or a certified copy of a report, record, or certificate;
c. Any person who willfully and knowingly uses or attempts to use or to furnish to another for use, for any purpose of deception, any certificate, record, report, or certified copy thereof so made, altered, amended, or mutilated;
d. Any person who, with the intention to deceive, willfully uses or attempts to use any certificate of birth or certified copy of a record of birth knowing that such certificate or certified copy was issued upon a record which is false in whole or in part or which relates to the birth of another person;
e. Any person who willfully and knowingly furnishes a certificate of birth or certified copy of a record of birth with the intention that it be used by a person other than the person to whom the record of birth relates; or
f. Any person who knowingly prepares, delivers, or uses a fraudulent or forged copy of a vital record; is guilty of a class C felony.
2.
a. Any person who refuses to provide information required by this chapter;
b. Any person who knowingly transports or accepts for transportation, interment, or other final disposition of a dead body or fetus without an accompanying final disposition-transit permit as provided in this chapter; or
c. Any person who willfully neglects or violates any of the provisions of this chapter or refuses to perform any of the duties imposed upon the person by this chapter; is guilty of an infraction.

N.D.C.C. § 23-02.1-32

Amended by S.L. 2017, ch. 92 (HB 1294),§ 6, eff. 8/1/2017.