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Below are the poverty penalties and poverty traps that meet your search criteria. Many include a See related provisions prompt which searches our database for laws that may pertain to your result.
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| State | Statute | Description/Statute Name | Statutory language | Type of poverty penalty or poverty trap | Level of offense | Mandatory | |
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North Dakota | N.D. Cent. Code § 12.1-32-08(1) | Hearing prior to ordering restitution, reparation, or reimbursement of indigent defense costs and expenses--Conditions--Collection of restitution for insufficient funds checks--Continuing appropriation |
An order that a defendant make restitution or reparation as a sentence or condition of probation may, unless the court directs otherwise, be filed, transcribed, and enforced by the person + See moreentitled to the restitution or reparation or by the division of adult services in the same manner as civil judgments rendered by the courts of this state may be enforced.
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Other | All | Yes |
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North Dakota | N.D. Cent. Code § 27-10-01.4(1)(d) | Remedial sanctions--Punitive sanctions for nonsummary and summary procedure--Past conduct | A court may impose one or more of the following remedial sanctions:d. An order designed to ensure compliance with a previous order of the court | Other | All | No |
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North Dakota | N.D. Cent. Code § 27-10-01.4(1)(e) | Remedial sanctions--Punitive sanctions for nonsummary and summary procedure--Past conduct |
A court may impose one or more of the following remedial sanctions:e. A sanction other than the sanctions specified in subdivisions a through d if the court expressly finds that + See morethose sanctions would be ineffectual to terminate a continuing contempt.
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Other | All | No |
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