Page:1973 North Dakota Session Laws.pdf/218

218 2. "Acted", "acts", and "actions" include, where relevant, "omitted to act" and "omissions to act";

3. "Actor" includes, where relevant, a person guilty of an omission;

4. "Bodily injury" means any impairment of physical condition, including physical pain;

5. "Court" means any of the following courts: the supreme court, a district court, a county court with increased jurisdiction, a county justice, and where relevant, a municipal court and a county court;

6. "Dangerous weapon" means any switch blade or gravity knife, machete, scimitar, stiletto, sword, or dagger; any billy, blackjack, sap, bludgeon, cudgel, metal knuckles or sand club; any slungshot; and any projector of a bomb or any object containing or capable of producing and emitting any noxious liquid, gas, or substance;

7. Destructive device" means any explosive, incendiary or poison gas bomb, grenade, mine, rocket, missile, or similar device;

8. "Explosive" means gunpowders, powders used for blasting, all forms of high explosives, blasting materials, fuses (other than electric circuit breakers), detonators, and other detonating agents, smokeless powders, and any chemical compounds, mechanical mixture, or other ingredients in such proportions, quantities or packing that ignition by fire, by friction, by concussion, by percussion, or by detonation of the compound, or material or any part thereof may cause an explosion;

9. "Felony" means an offense for which a term of imprisonment of one year or more is authorized by statute outside this title, or a felony as defined in section 12.1-32-01;

10. "Firearm" means any weapon which will expel, or is readily capable of expelling, a projectile by the action of an explosive and includes any such weapon, loaded or unloaded, commonly referred to as a pistol, revolver, rifle, gun, machine gun, shotgun, bazooka, or cannon;

11. "Force" means physical action;

12. "Government" means: (a) the government of this state or any political subdivision of this state; (b) any agency, subdivision, or department of the foregoing, including the executive, legislative, and judicial branches; (c) any corporation or other entity established by law to carry on any governmental function; and (d) any commission, corporation, or agency established by statute, compact, or contract between or among governments for the execution of intergovernmental programs;