Section 1-01-49 - Other general definitionsAs used in this code, unless the context otherwise requires or unless otherwise defined:
1. "Depose" includes every mode of written statement under oath or affirmation.2. "Executor" includes administrator and "administrator" includes executor.3. "Female" means a girl, woman, or an individual whose biological reproductive system is developed to produce ova.4. "Individual" means a human being.5. "Male" means a boy, man, or an individual whose biological reproductive system is developed to produce sperm.6. "Oath" includes "affirmation".7. "Organization" includes a foreign or domestic association, business trust, corporation, enterprise, estate, joint venture, limited liability company, limited liability partnership, limited partnership, partnership, trust, or any legal or commercial entity.8. "Partnership" includes a limited liability partnership registered under chapter 45-22.9. "Penitentiary" includes any affiliated facilities.10. "Person" means an individual, organization, government, political subdivision, or government agency or instrumentality. The term does not include environmental elements, artificial intelligence, an animal, or an inanimate object.11. "Personal property" includes money, goods, chattels, things in action, and evidences of debt.12. "Preceding" and "following" when used by way of reference to a chapter or other part of a statute means the next preceding or next following chapter or other part.13. "Primary sector business" means an individual, corporation, limited liability company, partnership, or association certified by the department of commerce division of economic development and finance which through the employment of knowledge or labor adds value to a product, process, or service which results in the creation of new wealth. For purposes of this subsection, "new wealth" means revenues generated by a business in this state through the sale of products or services to:
a. Customers outside of this state; orb. Customers in this state if the products or services were previously unavailable or difficult to obtain from a business in this state.14. "Process" means a writ or summons issued in the course of judicial proceedings.15. "Property" includes property, real and personal.16. "Real property" shall be coextensive with lands, tenements, and hereditaments.17. "Rule" includes regulation.18. "Sex" means the biological state of being male or female, based on the individual's nonambiguous sex organs, chromosomes, or endogenous hormone profiles at birth.19. "Signature" or "subscription" includes "mark" when the person cannot write, the person's name being written near it and written by a person who writes that person's own name as a witness.20. "State" when applied to the different parts of the United States, includes the District of Columbia and the territories.21. "Testify" includes every mode of oral statement under oath or affirmation.22. "United States" includes the District of Columbia and the territories.23. "Will" includes codicils.24. "Writ" means an order or precept in writing, issued in the name of the state or of a court or judicial officer.Amended by S.L. 2023, ch. 66 (HB 1474),§ 1, eff. 8/1/2023.Amended by S.L. 2023 , ch. 67( HB 1361 ), § 1, eff. 4/12/2023.Amended by S.L. 2017 , ch. 56( HB 1044 ), § 1, eff. 1/1/2017.