§ 12-60-01 Bureau created
§ 12-60-05 Attorney general – Duties – Appointment of personnel
§ 12-60-06 Furnishing of equipment
§ 12-60-07 Powers, duties, and functions of bureau
§ 12-60-07.1 Automated biometric data identification system
§ 12-60-08 Powers of investigators
§ 12-60-08.1 Power of the attorney general to issue subpoenas in bureau investigations
§ 12-60-09 Authorization of attorney general for investigations
§ 12-60-13 Court to ascertain criminal record of defendant – Furnish information of offense to the bureau
§ 12-60-16.1 Definitions
§ 12-60-16.2 Criminal history record information – Reportable events
§ 12-60-16.3 Criminal history record information – Rulemaking required
§ 12-60-16.4 Criminal history record information – Reportable offenses
§ 12-60-16.5 Criminal history record information – Exchange of information among criminal justice agencies and the courts
§ 12-60-16.6 Criminal history record information – Dissemination to parties not described in section 12-60-16.5
§ 12-60-16.7 Criminal history record information – Prohibited dissemination
§ 12-60-16.8 Criminal history record information – Required disclosure of certain dissemination
§ 12-60-16.9 Criminal history record information – Fee for record check
§ 12-60-16.10 Criminal history record information – Penalty
§ 12-60-16.11 Criminal history record information – Required action
§ 12-60-16.12 Criminal history record information – Civil action – Penalty
§ 12-60-17 Superintendent to make rules and regulations
§ 12-60-18 Money collected paid into general fund
§ 12-60-23 Bureau to maintain registry of protection orders, orders prohibiting contact, and restraining orders
§ 12-60-24 Criminal history record checks
§ 12-60-25 Lost, missing, or runaway children
§ 12-60-26 School enrollment procedures to aid identification and location of lost, missing, and runaway children

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Terms Used In North Dakota Code > Chapter 12-60 - Bureau of Criminal Investigation

  • Answer: The formal written statement by a defendant responding to a civil complaint and setting forth the grounds for defense.
  • Appeal: A request made after a trial, asking another court (usually the court of appeals) to decide whether the trial was conducted properly. To make such a request is "to appeal" or "to take an appeal." One who appeals is called the appellant.
  • Arrest: Taking physical custody of a person by lawful authority.
  • children: includes children by birth and by adoption. See North Dakota Code 1-01-18
  • Commutation: means the change of the punishment to which a person is sentenced to a less severe punishment. See North Dakota Code 12-55.1-01
  • Conditional pardon: means a pardon, commutation, reprieve, or remission of fine subject to terms and conditions established by the governor upon the recommendation of the pardon advisory board. See North Dakota Code 12-55.1-01
  • Contract: A legal written agreement that becomes binding when signed.
  • Conviction: A judgement of guilt against a criminal defendant.
  • Damages: Money paid by defendants to successful plaintiffs in civil cases to compensate the plaintiffs for their injuries.
  • Defendant: In a civil suit, the person complained against; in a criminal case, the person accused of the crime.
  • Department: means the department of corrections and rehabilitation. See North Dakota Code 12-55.1-01
  • Evidence: Information presented in testimony or in documents that is used to persuade the fact finder (judge or jury) to decide the case for one side or the other.
  • following: when used by way of reference to a chapter or other part of a statute means the next preceding or next following chapter or other part. See North Dakota Code 1-01-49
  • Guardian: A person legally empowered and charged with the duty of taking care of and managing the property of another person who because of age, intellect, or health, is incapable of managing his (her) own affairs.
  • Individual: means a human being. See North Dakota Code 1-01-49
  • Jurisdiction: (1) The legal authority of a court to hear and decide a case. Concurrent jurisdiction exists when two courts have simultaneous responsibility for the same case. (2) The geographic area over which the court has authority to decide cases.
  • Organization: includes a foreign or domestic association, business trust, corporation, enterprise, estate, joint venture, limited liability company, limited liability partnership, limited partnership, partnership, trust, or any legal or commercial entity. See North Dakota Code 1-01-49
  • Pardon: means the removal of punishment or custody imposed upon a person for the commission of an offense. See North Dakota Code 12-55.1-01
  • Person: means an individual, organization, government, political subdivision, or government agency or instrumentality. See North Dakota Code 1-01-49
  • Power of attorney: A written instrument which authorizes one person to act as another's agent or attorney. The power of attorney may be for a definite, specific act, or it may be general in nature. The terms of the written power of attorney may specify when it will expire. If not, the power of attorney usually expires when the person granting it dies. Source: OCC
  • Probation: A sentencing alternative to imprisonment in which the court releases convicted defendants under supervision as long as certain conditions are observed.
  • Process: means a writ or summons issued in the course of judicial proceedings. See North Dakota Code 1-01-49
  • Property: includes property, real and personal. See North Dakota Code 1-01-49
  • Remand: When an appellate court sends a case back to a lower court for further proceedings.
  • Reprieve: means a temporary relief from or postponement of the execution of a criminal sentence. See North Dakota Code 12-55.1-01
  • State: when applied to the different parts of the United States, includes the District of Columbia and the territories. See North Dakota Code 1-01-49
  • Subpoena: A command to a witness to appear and give testimony.
  • Transcript: A written, word-for-word record of what was said, either in a proceeding such as a trial or during some other conversation, as in a transcript of a hearing or oral deposition.
  • Trial: A hearing that takes place when the defendant pleads "not guilty" and witnesses are required to come to court to give evidence.
  • United States: includes the District of Columbia and the territories. See North Dakota Code 1-01-49
  • written: include "typewriting" and "typewritten" and "printing" and "printed" except in the case of signatures and when the words are used by way of contrast to typewriting and printing. See North Dakota Code 1-01-37