North Dakota Code 31-13-03 – Individuals to be tested – Costs
1. An individual eighteen years of age or over who is arrested or summoned to appear before a magistrate for the commission of a felony shall provide to a law enforcement officer or correctional personnel at the time of the individual’s arrest or appearance or upon booking into a correctional facility a sample of blood or other body fluids for DNA law enforcement identification purposes and inclusion in the law enforcement identification databases. If it is determined that the individual’s DNA sample is included in the law enforcement identification databases, an additional sample is not required.
Terms Used In North Dakota Code 31-13-03
- Arrest: Taking physical custody of a person by lawful authority.
- Conviction: A judgement of guilt against a criminal defendant.
- Individual: means a human being. See North Dakota Code 1-01-49
- Jurisdiction: (1) The legal authority of a court to hear and decide a case. Concurrent jurisdiction exists when two courts have simultaneous responsibility for the same case. (2) The geographic area over which the court has authority to decide cases.
- Plea: In a criminal case, the defendant's statement pleading "guilty" or "not guilty" in answer to the charges, a declaration made in open court.
- Probation: A sentencing alternative to imprisonment in which the court releases convicted defendants under supervision as long as certain conditions are observed.
2. The provisions of this subsection apply only if an individual’s DNA sample is not already included in the law enforcement identification databases. The court shall order any individual convicted on or after August 1, 1995, of any sexual offense or attempted sexual offense in violation of section 12.1-20-03, 12.1-20-03.1, 12.1-20-04, 12.1-20-05, or 12.1-20-06, subdivision e or f of subsection 1 of section 12.1-20-07, or section 12.1-20-11 or any other offense when the court finds at sentencing that the individual engaged in a nonconsensual sexual act or sexual contact with another individual during, in the course of, or as a result of, the offense or any individual who is in the custody of the department after July 31, 1995, as a result of a conviction of one of these offenses to have a sample of blood or other body fluids taken by the department for DNA law enforcement identification purposes and inclusion in law enforcement identification databases. The court shall order any individual convicted after July 31, 2001, of a felony offense contained in chapter 12.1-16, 12.1-17, or 12.1-18, section 12.1-22-01, or chapter 12.1-27.2 or any individual who is in the custody of the department after July 31, 2001, as a result of a conviction for one of these offenses to have a sample of blood or other body fluids taken by the department for DNA law enforcement identification purposes and inclusion in the law enforcement identification databases. The court shall order an individual convicted after July 31, 2005, of any felony offense or an individual arrested for the commission of a felony offense after July 31, 2009, to have a sample of blood or other body fluids taken by the department for DNA law enforcement identification purposes and inclusion in the law enforcement identification databases. DNA samples must be collected immediately, but may be preserved by the department for subsequent analysis upon receipt of sufficient funding. Any individual convicted after July 31, 1995, who is not sentenced to a term of confinement, shall provide a sample of blood or other body fluids as a condition of the sentence or probation at a time and place specified by the sentencing court.
3. If the individual from whom a DNA sample is collected is convicted of a felony offense, the sentencing court shall assess the cost of the procedure against the individual being tested. The department shall collect the cost of the procedure from the individual being tested and transfer the amount collected to the attorney general for deposit in the general fund.
4. If the sentencing court has not ordered an individual to provide a sample of blood or other body fluids under this section, or if an individual required to provide a sample of blood or other body fluids under this section has refused to submit a sample of blood or other body fluids, the sentencing court retains jurisdiction to order the individual, including an individual whose sentence to incarceration or supervised probation has expired, to submit a sample of blood or other body fluids for DNA law enforcement identification purposes, or to order the individual to show cause why the individual should not be required to submit a sample of blood or other body fluids for DNA law enforcement identification purposes.
5. If a sample of blood or body fluids collected under this section does not contain sufficient material necessary to obtain accurate DNA identification, the crime laboratory may request a law enforcement officer or correctional personnel collect another sample for analysis and inclusion in the law enforcement identification databases.
6. The laboratory shall retain DNA samples in accordance with laboratory DNA sample retention procedures.
7. For purposes of this section, “conviction” and “convicted” means a plea of guilty or a finding of guilt by a court or a jury of one of the above-mentioned crimes, notwithstanding that the court suspended execution of sentence or deferred imposition of sentence in accordance with subsection 3 or 4 of section 12.1-32-02, or a felony offense was reduced to a misdemeanor offense in accordance with subsection 9 of section 12.1-32-02 or section 12.1-32-07.1.