{"id":24170,"date":"2013-07-31T14:57:39","date_gmt":"2013-07-31T19:57:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/?p=24170"},"modified":"2013-07-31T14:57:47","modified_gmt":"2013-07-31T19:57:47","slug":"news-laws-take-effect-in-n-d-aug-1-2013","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/?p=24170","title":{"rendered":"New Laws Take Effect In N.D. Aug 1, 2013"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"ndstatecapital<\/a>BISMARCK, N.D. (AP) \u2014 More than 320 new laws will take effect Thursday August 1, 2013 \u00a0in North Dakota, including limits on abortion, a repeal of a ban that prohibits some convicted criminals from running for city council and a measure that allows permitted parishioners to pack a gun in church.<\/p>\n

Cruelty to animals can be prosecuted as a felony in North Dakota beginning Thursday, making South Dakota the only state without felony penalties for animal mistreatment.<\/p>\n

A measure that gives gun owners the right to sue if the government attempts to confiscate weapons or ammunition during a declared state of emergency goes on the books Thursday, as does a law banning the use of Medicaid funding for surrogate mothers.<\/p>\n

In the past, someone convicted of \u201cmalfeasance, bribery, or other corrupt practice or crime\u201d could not run for city council in North Dakota. On Thursday, they can.<\/p>\n

Gov. Jack Dalrymple signed 503 bills into law this year after the Republican-led Legislature took the entire 80 days allowed by law to finish its work.<\/p>\n

Most of the laws take effect Aug. 1, although spending bills generally become law in July.<\/p>\n

On Sunday, there may be more firearms in church now that they are no longer gun-free zones in North Dakota. Legislation sponsored by Rep. Kim Koppelman, R-West Fargo, allows someone with a concealed weapon permit to carry a gun at church if officials there allow it.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe decision of whether you may carry a gun in a church is one for that church \u2014 not the government \u2014 to make,\u201d Koppelman told The Associated Press. \u201cIf there is a threat at the church now someone can do something about it. In the past, they haven’t been able to.\u201d<\/p>\n

The Legislature this year passed a spate abortion measures that give the state the toughest restrictions in the nation. A federal judge last week blocked the most restrictive measure that bans abortion when a fetal heartbeat is detected \u2014 as early as six weeks into pregnancy. On Thursday, a law that bans abortions after 20 weeks of pregnancy takes effect, as does a measure that prohibits abortions based on sex selection or a genetic defect, such as Down syndrome.<\/p>\n

Abortion-rights activists have said the latter two laws don’t affect the state’s sole abortion clinic in Fargo because such abortions are not done there.<\/p>\n

Besides abortion and gun measures, testimony on animal cruelty-related legislation drew some of the largest crowds at the Capitol during this year’s session.<\/p>\n

The measure’s main sponsor Sen. Tim Flakoll, R-Fargo, said similar legislation had failed in the past two sessions. Now in cases of abuse, neglect or abandonment a first offense would be a misdemeanor and a third within 10 years a felony.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe new law provides clearer processes and definitions with penalties that match up with the severity and frequency of the bad act,\u201d Flakoll said.<\/p>\n

So-called usual and customary practices used in livestock production, animal racing, rodeos, hunting and fishing are exempt from the new law.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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