North Dakota Statutes
§ 12.1-07-02 — Desecration of the flag of the United States
North Dakota § 12.1-07-02
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N.D. Cent. Code § 12.1-07-02 (2026).
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1.A person is guilty of a class A misdemeanor if he knowingly casts contempt upon any
flag of the United States by publicly mutilating, defacing, defiling, burning, or trampling
upon it.
2.The term "flag of the United States" as used in this section shall include any flag,
standard, colors, or ensign, or any picture or representation of either, or of any part or
parts of either, made of any substance or represented on any substance, of any size
evidently purporting to be either of said flag, standard, colors, or ensign of the United
States of America, or a picture or a representation of either, upon which shall be
shown the colors, the stars and the stripes, in any number of either thereof, or of any
part or parts of either, by which the average person seeing the same without
deliberatio
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§ 12.1-01-02
General purposes§ 12.1-01-03
Proof and presumptions§ 12.1-01-03.1
Presumption of age§ 12.1-01-04
General definitions§ 12.1-02-01
Basis of liability for offenses§ 12.1-02-02
Requirements of culpability§ 12.1-02-03
Mistake of fact in affirmative defenses§ 12.1-02-04
Ignorance or mistake negating culpability§ 12.1-02-05
Causal relationship between conduct and result§ 12.1-03-01
Accomplices§ 12.1-03-04
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