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North Dakota Code > Title 12.1 > Chapter 12.1-06.2 > § 12.1-06.2-01 - Definitions

As used in this chapter, the term:

       1.    "Crime of pecuniary gain" means any violation of state law that directly results or was intended to result in the defendant alone, or in association with others, receiving income, benefit, property, money, or anything of value.

       2.    "Crime of violence" means any violation of state law where a person purposely or knowingly causes or threatens to cause death or physical bodily injury to another person or persons.

       3.    "Criminal street gang" means any ongoing organization or group of three or more persons, whether formal or informal, that acts in concert or agrees to act in concert with a purpose that any of those persons alone or in any combination commit or will commit two or more predicate gang crimes one of which occurs after August 1, 1995, and the last of which occurred within five years after the commission of a prior predicate gang crime.

       4.    "Participate in a criminal street gang" means to act in concert with a criminal street gang with intent to commit or with the intent that any other person associated with the criminal street gang will commit one or more predicate gang crimes.

       5.    "Predicate gang crime" means the commission, attempted commission, or solicitation of any felony, misdemeanor crime of violence, or misdemeanor crime of pecuniary gain.

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See also:

North Dakota Code > Chapter 12.1-06.2 - Criminal Street Gangs

U.S. Code Provisions: Organized Crime

U.S. Code Title 18 > Part I > Chapter 26 - Criminal Street Gangs

U.S. Code Title 42 > Chapter 136 > Subchapter V - Criminal Street Gangs