Section 12.1-08-03 - Hindering law enforcement1. A person is guilty of hindering law enforcement if he intentionally interferes with, hinders, delays, or prevents the discovery, apprehension, prosecution, conviction, or punishment of another for an offense by: a. Harboring or concealing the other;b. Providing the other with a weapon, money, transportation, disguise, or other means of avoiding discovery or apprehension;c. Concealing, altering, mutilating, or destroying a document or thing, regardless of its admissibility in evidence;d. Warning the other of impending discovery or apprehension other than in connection with an effort to bring another into compliance with the law; ore. Giving false information or a false report to a law enforcement officer knowing such information or report to be false.2. Hindering law enforcement is a class C felony if the actor: a. Knows of the conduct of the other and such conduct constitutes a class AA, class A, or class B felony; orb. Knows that the other has been charged with or convicted of a crime and such crime is a class AA, class A, or class B felony. Otherwise hindering law enforcement is a class A misdemeanor.
3. A person who commits the crime of hindering law enforcement is subject to prosecution in this state if the conduct interferes with or hinders an investigation of a crime occurring within this state. The venue of a criminal action involving the crime of hindering law enforcement is in any county in which the conduct of hindering is committed or in any county in which a criminal offense is being investigated which is hindered by the false information or other interfering conduct.Amended by S.L. 2015, ch. 102 (SB 2204),§ 1, eff. 8/1/2015.