§ 20.1-10-06 — Search warrants - Issuance - Contents

Whenever any person makes a complaint to any judge having authority to issue warrants in
criminal cases that the person knows or has good reason to believe that any wild animal, bird,
or fish, or any part thereof, taken, killed, or possessed contrary to this title, is concealed in any
particular house or place, or in the living quarters of any person, the judge shall examine such
complainant on oath, reduce the complaint to writing, describing as particularly as possible the
place where such wild animal, bird, or fish, or part thereof, is alleged to be concealed, and
cause such written complaint to be subscribed by the complainant. If it appears to the judge
there is reasonable cause to believe that the facts alleged in the complaint are true, the judge
shall issue a warrant containing the substance of the complaint and the description of the
premises. This warrant must require the officer to whom it is directed forthwith to search such
premises; to seize any wild animal, bird, or fish, or part thereof, found on such premises; and to
bring them and the person in whose possession they are found, before the judge who issued
the warrant, or before some other judge having jurisdiction.