North Dakota Code § 32-22-38

Removing or concealing prisoner to avoid writ - Penalty
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Anyone having a person in custody or under restraint, power, or control, for whose relief a 
writ of habeas corpus is issued, who, with intent to avoid the effect of such writ, shall transfer 
such person to the custody, or place such person under control of another, or shall conceal such 
person or change the place of such person's confinement with intent to avoid the operation of 
such writ, or with intent to remove such person out of this state, shall be guilty of a class C 
felony. In any prosecution under this section, it shall not be necessary to show that the writ of 
habeas corpus had issued at the time of the removal, transfer, or concealment therein 
mentioned, if it is proven that the acts therein forbidden were done with the intent to avoid the 
operation of such writ.

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