North Dakota Code § 12.1-31-01.1

Disorderly conduct at a funeral - Penalty
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1. For purposes of this section:
a. "Funeral" means the ceremonies, rituals, processions, and memorial services 
held at a funeral site in connection with the burial, cremation, or memorial of a 
deceased individual.
b. "Funeral site" means a church, synagogue, mosque, funeral home, mortuary, 
cemetery, gravesite, mausoleum, or other place at which a funeral is conducted 
or is scheduled to be conducted within the next hour or has been conducted 
within the last hour.
2. An individual is guilty of disorderly conduct at a funeral if the individual:
a. Engages, with knowledge of the existence of a funeral site, in any loud singing, 
playing of music, chanting, whistling, yelling, or noisemaking within one thousand 
feet [300.48 meters] of any ingress or egress of that funeral site if the volume of 
the singing, music, chanting, whistling, yelling, or noisemaking is likely to be 
audible at and disturbing to the funeral site; or
b. Displays, with knowledge of the existence of a funeral site and within one 
thousand feet [ 300.48 meters] of any ingress or egress of that funeral site, any 
visual images that convey fighting words or actual or veiled threats against any 
other individual.
3. Disorderly conduct at a funeral is a class B misdemeanor. A second or subsequent 
violation of this section is a class A misdemeanor.

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