CHAPTER 12-02
OBSTRUCTION OF GOVERNMENT OPERATIONS AND LAW ENFORCEMENT. SECTIONS:
12-0201. Public Servants Permitting Escape.
12-0202. Criminal Contempt.
12-0203. Hindering Proceedings by Disorderly Conduct.
12-0204. Impersonating Officials.
12-0205. False Reports to Law Enforcement Officers.
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12-0201. PUBLIC SERVANTS PERMITTING ESCAPE. A public servant concerned in official detention, as defined by N.D. Cent. Code § 12.1-08-06(3), pursuant to process issued by a court, judge, or magistrate is guilty of an offense against the ordinances of this city if he negligently permits an escape.
12-0202. CRIMINAL CONTEMPT.
1. The municipal court has power to punish for contempt of its authority only for the following offenses:
a. Misbehavior of any person in its presence or so near thereto as to obstruct the administration of justice;
b. Misbehavior of any of its officers in their official transactions;
c. Disobedience or resistance to its lawful writ, process, order, rule, decree, or command.
2. Except as otherwise provided, a criminal contempt proceeding under this section shall be deemed a prosecution for an offense for the purposes of N.D. Cent. Code Chapters 12.1-01 through 12.1-05, N.D. Cent. Code Chapter 12.1-32, and Section 12-05 of this chapter.
3. A criminal contempt proceeding under this section is not a bar to subsequent prosecution for a specific offense if the court certifies in the judgment of conviction of criminal contempt, or the order terminating the proceeding without acquittal or dismissal, that a summary criminal contempt proceeding was necessary to prevent repetition of misbehavior disruptive of an ongoing
proceeding and that subsequent prosecution as a specific offense is warranted. In a subsequent prosecution, the= defendant shall receive credit for all time spent in custody and any fine paid by him pursuant to the criminal contempt proceeding.
4. This section shall not be construed to deprive a court of its power, by civil contempt proceedings, to compel compliance with its lawful writ, process, order, rule, decree, or command or to compensate a complainant for losses sustained by reason of disobedience or resistance thereto, in accordance with the prevailing usages of law and equity, including the power of detention.
12-0203. HINDERING PROCEEDINGS BY DISORDERLY CONDUCT. A person is guilty of an offense if he recklessly hinders an official city proceeding by noise or violent or tumultuous behavior or disturbance.
12-0204. IMPERSONATING OFFICIALS. A person is guilty of an offense if he falsely pretends to be a public servant of this city and acts as if to exercise the authority of such public servant.
12-0205. FALSE REPORTS TO LAW ENFORCEMENT OFFICERS. A person is guilty of an offense if he intentionally or knowingly provides or gives a false report or false information to a law enforcement officer, unless such false statement is given with the intent to falsely implicate another, or involves a false report of a crime calling for an emergency response in which case, such false report would be a Class A Misdemeanor.