§ 29-01-25 — Receipt to accused and clerk or magistrate

North Dakota § 29-01-25

• Jurisdiction: North Dakota
• Title 29: Judicial Procedure, Criminal
• Ch. 29-01: General Provisions

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When money or other property is taken from a defendant arrested upon a charge of a public
offense, the officer taking it at the time shall give duplicate receipts therefor, specifying
particularly the amount of the money, or the kind of property taken, one of which receipts the
officer shall deliver to the defendant, and the other of which the officer shall file at once with the
clerk of the court to which the complaint and other papers in the case by law are required to be
sent. When such property is taken by a police officer of any incorporated city, the officer shall
deliver one of the receipts to the defendant and one, with the property, at once to the clerk or
other person in charge of the police office in such city, or, if there is no such clerk or other
person, then to the magistrate before whom such defendant may be taken for examination or
trial.