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North Dakota Duty to Inform Police Laws (2026)

Conditional: In North Dakota, disclosure is required only on inquiry, not proactively: a permitless carrier must inform an officer of the concealed firearm if the officer asks (NDCC 62.1-04-04(2)); licensees must carry the license, or a digital image of it, and give it to an officer for inspection on request (62.1-04-04(1), noncriminal, $20).

In North Dakota, disclosure is required only on inquiry, not proactively: a permitless carrier must inform an officer of the concealed firearm if the officer asks (NDCC 62.1-04-04(2)); licensees must carry the license, or a digital image of it, and give it to an officer for inspection on request (62.1-04-04(1), noncriminal, $20). The old inform-on-initial-contact rule is gone from the current Century Code.

Official source: ndlegis.gov →

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