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Sixty-ninth Legislative Assembly of North Dakota In Regular Session Commencing Tuesday, January 7, 2025 HOUSE BILL NO. 1299 (Representative Koppelman) 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. H. B. NO. 1299 - PAGE 2 ____________________________ Speaker of the House ____________________________ President of the Senate ____________________________ Chief Clerk of the House ____________________________ Secretary of the Senate This certifies that the within bill originated in the House of Representatives of the Sixty-ninth Legislative Assembly of North Dakota and is known on the records of that body as House Bill No. 1299. House Vote: Senate Vote: Yeas 82 Yeas 45 Nays 11 Nays 1 Absent 1 Absent 1 ____________________________ Chief Clerk of the House Received by the Governor at ________M. on _____________________________________, 2025. Approved at ________M. on __________________________________________________, 2025. ____________________________ Governor Filed in this office this ___________day of _______________________________________, 2025, at ________ o’clock ________M. ____________________________ Secretary of State
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