CRIMES AND PUNISHMENT
CHAPTER 118
S. B. No. 267
(Committee on Judiciary)
PUNISHMENT FOR INDECENT LIBERTIES; PSYCHIATRIC TREATMENT OF PRISONERS
AN ACT
To amend and reenact section 12-3011 of the North Dakota Revised Code of 1943 as amended by chapter 117 of the 1951 Session Laws of the State of North Dakota, and providing for psychiatric treatment of prisoners.
Be It Enacted by the Legislative Assembly of the State of North Dakota:
§ 1. Amendment.) Section 12-3011 of the North Dakota Revised Code of 1943 as amended by chapter 117 of the 1951 session laws is hereby amended and reenacted to read as follows:
12-3011. Indecent Liberties; Felony.) Every person who shall take any indecent liberty with or on the person of any individual under the age of eighteen years, which act under law does not amount to rape, or attempt to commit rape, or assault with intent to commit rape, or sodomy, or other crime against nature, is guilty of a felony, and shall be punished by imprisonment in the penitentiary for not less than one year nor more than fifteen years, and for any second offense of said crime by punishment in the state penitentiary for not less than five years.
§ 2. Psychiatric Treatment.) The board of pardons may cause any person convicted under chapter 12-30 of the North Dakota Revised Code of 1943, to be given psychiatric treatment or to be transferred to the state hospital for treatment according to such condition as may be prescribed by the board of pardons.
Approved March 11, 1953.
