25.0507.01000
Sixty-ninth
Legislative Assembly
of North Dakota
Introduced by
Representative Koppelman
A BILL for an Act to amend and reenact section 29-06-22 of the North Dakota Century Code,
relating to when a private person may break into a building to make an arrest.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATIVE ASSEMBLY OF NORTH DAKOTA:
SECTION 1. AMENDMENT. Section 29-06-22 of the North Dakota Century Code is
amended and reenacted as follows:
29-06-22. When a private person may break into a building.
A private person, in order to make an arrest when a felony was committed in the arresting
person's presence, as authorized in section 29-06-20, if the person is refused admittance after
the person has announced the person's purpose and the person reasonably believes an
individual inside is at imminent risk of serious bodily injury or death, may break open a door or
window of any building in which the person to be arrested is, or is reasonably believed to be.
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