North Dakota Code — 31
Browse 136 sections in division 31 of the North Dakota code. Each section page includes the full statutory text, official source links, and citation guidance.
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- § 31-01-01. Persons competent to testify as witnesses generally - Exception
- § 31-01-02. Competency of husband or wife as witness - Communications made during
- § 31-01-03. Competency of party or officers of corporate party as to transactions or
- § 31-01-04. When husband or wife may testify to transactions and conversations had
- § 31-01-05. When transactions or conversations with decedent may be testified to by
- § 31-01-06. Public officers cannot testify regarding confidential communications
- § 31-01-06.1. Counselors shall be immune from disclosing information given by pupils
- § 31-01-06.2. Disclosure of news sources and information required only on court order
- § 31-01-06.3. Addiction counselor - Client privilege - Definitions
- § 31-01-06.4. General rule of privilege
- § 31-01-06.5. Who may claim the privilege
- § 31-01-06.6. Exceptions to the privilege
- § 31-01-07. Act constituting consent to disclosure of confidential communications
- § 31-01-08. When conviction of perjury or subornation thereof disqualifies witness Effect on innocent rights if received
- § 31-01-09. Privilege against self-incrimination - Grant of immunity
- § 31-01-10. Presiding judge or any juror may be called as a witness
- § 31-01-11. Interpreter for witness - When required - How subpoenaed - Oath or
- § 31-01-12. Fees for interpreters
- § 31-01-13. Places where persons may be compelled to attend as witnesses in civil
- § 31-01-14. Places where persons may be compelled to attend as witnesses in criminal
- § 31-01-15. Witness exempt from suit out of county
- § 31-01-16. Compensation and mileage and travel expense of witness
- § 31-01-16.1. Witness fees and expenses of municipal police officers
- § 31-01-16.2. Compensation of municipal court witnesses
- § 31-01-17. Duplicate witness fees not permissible
- § 31-01-18. Expenses of witness paid by city or state upon court order in criminal or
- § 31-01-19. Witness for indigent defendants subpoenaed and paid by city, county, or
- § 31-01-20. Advance payment of fees - Return of service of subpoena to state demand
- § 31-01-21. Fees may be demanded daily by witness
- § 31-01-22. Oath of witness
- § 31-03-01. Subpoena defined
- § 31-03-02. Requisites of subpoenas and subpoenas duces tecum
- § 31-03-03. Form for subpoena duces tecum
- § 31-03-04. Form of subpoena in criminal actions
- § 31-03-05. Who to issue subpoenas
- § 31-03-06. Issuance of subpoenas by persons authorized to take depositions
- § 31-03-07. Issuance of subpoenas by magistrate in criminal proceedings
- § 31-03-08. Issuance of subpoena by state's attorneys
- § 31-03-09. Court clerks required to issue blank subpoenas for defendants
- § 31-03-10. Who may make service of subpoena
- § 31-03-11. Methods of service of subpoena - Exception
- § 31-03-12. Service of subpoena by mail, telegraph, or telephone
- § 31-03-13. Service of subpoenas - Proof - Peace officers required to make
- § 31-03-14. Contempt and manner of punishment for failure to obey subpoena, to be
- § 31-03-15. Civil penalty for failure to obey subpoena when called for defendant in
- § 31-03-16. Prisoners may be ordered to appear as witnesses - Depositions
- § 31-03-17. Prisoner in custody of officer while deposition is taken - Officer to provide
- § 31-03-18. Attendance of prisoners as witnesses for state in criminal actions - How
- § 31-03-19. Undertaking for appearance of material witness for state who appeared at
- § 31-03-20. Undertaking for appearance of material witness for state - When required Procedure for requiring
- § 31-03-21. When confinement of material witness for state permitted
- § 31-03-22. Conditional examinations of witness
- § 31-03-23. Forfeiture of undertaking by witness
- § 31-03-24. Fees for witnesses who have been confined may be allowed - Amount
- § 31-03-25. Summoning witness in this state to testify in another state
- § 31-03-26. Summons issued to compel witness to appear in another state
- § 31-03-27. Mileage and witness fees of witness summoned to another state - Failure to
- § 31-03-28. Witness from another state summoned to testify in this state
- § 31-03-29. Mileage and fees of witness from another state - Length of time to remain in
- § 31-03-30. Witness coming into state - Exemption from arrest and service of process
- § 31-03-31. Witness passing through state to testify in other state exempt from arrest
- § 31-04-01. Methods of taking testimony of witnesses
- § 31-04-02. Affidavit defined
- § 31-04-03. Deposition defined
- § 31-04-04. Oral examination defined
- § 31-04-04.1. Videotaped statement of child sexual offense victim - Criteria for
- § 31-04-04.2. Use of audiovisual equipment for the testimony of minors or disabled
- § 31-04-05. Use of affidavits
- § 31-04-06. How proof of publication made
- § 31-04-07. Where and how affidavits may be made
- § 31-04-08. Procedure for securing affidavit of person refusing to make the same
- § 31-04-09. No title required to affidavits
- § 31-04-10. Form and contents of certificate for certifying copies to be used as
- § 31-04-11. Mediation - Inadmissibility of evidence - Exception
- § 31-04-12. Expressions of empathy
- § 31-08-01. Admissibility in evidence of business records - Term business defined Exception
- § 31-08-01.1. Certain copies of business and public records admissible in evidence
- § 31-08-01.2. Medical records authentication
- § 31-08-01.3. Medical records recording
- § 31-08-02. Proof of witnessed written instruments
- § 31-08-02.1. Handwriting admissible in evidence for comparison
- § 31-08-03. Proof of writing by admission of genuineness - Effect of refusal to give
- § 31-08-04. How copy or inspection of writing in hands of adverse party obtainable Effect of refusal to give
- § 31-08-05. Statistical tables admissible to establish life expectancy
- § 31-08-06. When instruments affecting real property, or records or copies of records
- § 31-08-07. Copies of statements to be provided - When statement admissible
- § 31-09-01. Statutes, codes, decisions, when admissible as evidence of laws of foreign
- § 31-09-01.1. Reciprocal enforcement of tax statutes
- § 31-09-02. When copies of records and proceedings of federal, state, and territorial
- § 31-09-03. Stenographic report or transcript as evidence
- § 31-09-04. How judicial record of foreign country proved
- § 31-09-05. Certified transcript of judge's record admissible in courts of county
- § 31-09-06. Certified transcript of county judge's record admissible in courts of other
- § 31-09-07. Clerk of court - Certificate to official acts of judge
- § 31-09-08. Entries in official books or records constitute prima facie evidence
- § 31-09-09. Entries made by or by direction of officers or boards constitute prima facie
- § 31-09-10. Method of proving official documents
- § 31-09-11. Official reports or findings of fact admissible in evidence
- § 31-09-12. Cross-examination of person making reports or findings or person
- § 31-10-01. Evidence of facts judicially noted not required - How judges familiarized
- § 31-10-02. Facts subject to judicial notice
- § 31-10-03. Foreign laws - Those judicially noted - How court familiarized with Reviewable
- § 31-10-04. Evidence of foreign laws admissible - Notice to adverse party of reliance on
- § 31-10-05. Foreign laws not judicially noted constitute issue for court
- § 31-11-01. Presumptions - When controvertible - When jury bound to follow
- § 31-11-02. Conclusive presumptions
- § 31-11-03. Disputable presumptions
- § 31-11-04. Presumption of death as to estates in real property
- § 31-11-04.1. Finding of death under Federal Missing Persons Act prima facie evidence
- § 31-11-04.2. Other findings under Federal Missing Persons Act as prima facie
- § 31-11-04.3. Reports and copies deemed signed by authorized officer
- § 31-11-05. Maxims of jurisprudence - How to be used and applied - List
- § 31-11-06. Estoppel by declaration, act, or omission
- § 31-11-07. Tenant estopped from denying landlord's title
- § 31-13-01. Definitions
- § 31-13-02. DNA testing - Admissibility as evidence
- § 31-13-03. Individuals to be tested - Costs
- § 31-13-04. DNA testing - Procedure - Immunity
- § 31-13-05. DNA database established - How utilized
- § 31-13-06. Confidentiality of records
- § 31-13-07. Removal of DNA profiles from database
- § 31-13-08. Rules
- § 31-13-09. DNA profiles to be available to law enforcement - Penalty
- § 31-13-10. Tampering with DNA sample testing - Penalty
- § 31-14-01. Definitions
- § 31-14-02. Applicability
- § 31-14-03. Validity of unsworn declaration
- § 31-14-04. Required medium
- § 31-14-05. Form of unsworn declaration
- § 31-14-06. Relation to Electronic Signatures in Global and National Commerce Act
- § 31-15-01. Definitions
- § 31-15-02. Applicability
- § 31-15-03. Validity of unsworn declaration
- § 31-15-04. Required medium
- § 31-15-05. Form of unsworn declaration
- § 31-15-06. Relation to Electronic Signatures in Global and National Commerce Act