North Dakota Code § 32-48-06

Supplies, equipment, and products designed, manufactured, labeled, sold,
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distributed, and donated in response to COVID-19.
1. A person that designs, manufactures, labels, sells, distributes, or donates disinfecting 
or cleaning supplies, personal protective equipment, or a qualified product in response 
to COVID-19 is immune from civil liability for any personal injury, death, or property 
damage caused by or resulting from the design, manufacturing, labeling, selling, 
distributing, or donating of the disinfecting or cleaning supplies, personal protective 
equipment, or a qualified product.
2. A person that designs, manufactures, labels, sells, distributes, or donates disinfecting 
or cleaning supplies, personal protective equipment, or a qualified product in response 
to COVID-19 is immune from civil liability for any personal injury, death, or property 
damage caused by or resulting from a failure to provide proper instruction or sufficient 
warning.
3. The immunity provided under subsections 1 and 2 does not apply:
a. To a person that designs, manufactures, labels, sells, distributes, or donates 
disinfecting or cleaning supplies, personal protective equipment, or a qualified 
product:
(1) With actual knowledge of a defect in the disinfecting or cleaning supplies, 
personal protective equipment, or a qualified product when put to the use for 
which the disinfecting or cleaning supplies, personal protective equipment, 
or a qualified product was designed, manufactured, sold, distributed, or 
donated; and
(2) If the person recklessly disregarded a substantial and unnecessary risk the 
disinfecting or cleaning supplies, personal protective equipment, or a 
qualified product would cause serious personal injury, death, or serious 
property damage; or
b. If the person that designs, manufactures, labels, sells, distributes, or donates 
disinfecting or cleaning supplies, personal protective equipment, or a qualified 
product acts with actual malice.

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