Current through the 2023 Legislative Sessions
Section 12.1-38-01 - DefinitionsAs used in this chapter, unless the context otherwise requires:
1. "Convicted" includes a finding of guilt, whether or not the adjudication of guilt is stayed or executed, an unwithdrawn judicial admission of guilt or guilty plea, a no contest plea, a judgment of conviction, an adjudication as a delinquent child, or an admission to a juvenile delinquency petition.2. "Course of criminal conduct" includes the acts or omissions of a victim in resisting criminal conduct.3. "Crime" includes an offense named in section 12.1-16-01, 12.1-16-02, 12.1-16-03, 12.1-17-01, 12.1-17-01.1, 12.1-17-01.2, 12.1-17-02, 12.1-17-03, 12.1-17-04, chapter 12.1-18, section 12.1-20-03, 12.1-20-04, 12.1-20-05, 12.1-20-07, chapter 12.1-21, section 12.1-22-01, 12.1-22-02, or 12.1-22-03, or an attempt to commit any of these offenses. The term includes a crime in other states which would have been within this definition if the crime had been committed in this state.4. "Perpetrator" means a person who has engaged in criminal conduct and includes a person convicted of a crime.5. "Victim" means a person who was the object of another's criminal conduct and includes a person at the scene of an emergency who gives reasonable assistance to another person who is exposed to or has suffered grave physical harm.Amended by S.L. 2019, ch. 107 (HB 1393),§ 7, eff. 8/1/2019.