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TITLE 500
PROHIBITED CONDUCT
500.01 Unlawful assembly
When two or more Indians assemble, each participant is guilty of unlawful assembly which is a
misdemeanor, punishable by a fine of up to $5000.00, up to one year in jail or both, if the
assembly is:
a) With intent to commit an unlawful or lawful act by force; or
b) With intent to carry out any purpose in such a manner as will disturb or threaten the
public peace; or
c) Without unlawful purpose, but the participants so conduct themselves in a disorderly
manner as to disturb or threaten the public peace.
500.02 Riot
When two or more Indians are assembled and disturb the public peace by an intentional act or
threat of unlawful force or violence to person or property, each participant therein is guilty of riot
which is a misdemeanor, punishable by a fine of up to $5000.00, up to one year in jail or both.
500.03 Terroristic Threats
Subdivision 1. Any Indian who threatens to commit any crime with the purpose to terrorize
another or to cause evacuation of a building or place of assembly or otherwise to cause serious
public inconvenience or in reckless disregard of the risk of causing such terror or inconvenience
is guilty of terroristic threat which is a misdemeanor punishable by a fine of up to $5000.00, up
to one year in jail or both.
Subdivision 2. Any Indian who communicates to another with the purpose to terrorize another or
in reckless disregard of the risk of causing such terror, that explosives or an explosive device or
any incendiary device is present at a named place or location, whether or not the same is in fact
present, is guilty of an offense under this subdivision which is a misdemeanor punishable by a
fine of up to $5000.00, up to one year in jail or both.


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500.04 Public Nuisance
Any Indian who by his act or failure to perform an act does any of the following is guilty of
maintaining a public nuisance, which is a misdemeanor punishable by a fine of up to $5000.00,
up to one year in jail or both:
a) Causes a disturbance to the health, safety or peace and comfort of any number
(including one) of members of the public; or
b) Interferes with, obstructs, or renders dangerous for passage, any public
highways or right-of-way, or waters used by the public; or
c) Maintains or permits conditions which disturb the health, safety or peace and
comfort of any number (including one) of members of the public; or
d) Fails to obey a police officer who commands an individual to refrain from interfering
with a police officer's duties or fails to leave or keep away from a public or private
place, in order to maintain peace.
500.05 Disorderly Conduct
Any Indian who does any of the following in a public or private place, knowing or having
reasonable grounds to know that it will, or will tend to, alarm, anger or disturb others or provoke
an assault or breach of peace, is guilty of disorderly conduct which is a misdemeanor punishable
by a fine of up to $5000.00, up to one year in jail or both:
a) Engages in brawling or fighting; or
b) Disturbs an assembly or meeting, not unlawful in its character; or
c) Engages in offensive, obscene, or abusive language or in boisterous and
noisy conduct tending reasonably to arouse alarm, anger or resentment in
others; or
d) Because of intoxication, alarms, angers or disturbs other persons on public
or private property. Under such circumstances, the police shall have
authority to immediately remove such Indian from the public or private
property where he is causing the disturbance; or
e) Due to intoxication by alcohol and/or controlled substances causes a
potential danger to himself, herself or others, or, in some other manner
presents a nuisance or hazard to the public.


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500.06 Vandalism
Any Indian who defaces, defiles, damages, harms, injures or destroys real, personal or public
property in whole or part, shall be guilty of vandalism, which shall be punishable by a fine of up
to $5000.00, up to one year in jail or both.
500.07 Harassment; Stalking; Penalties
Subdivision 1. Definition. As used in this section, "harass" means to engage in intentional
conduct in a manner that: 1) would cause a person under such circumstances to feel oppressed,
persecuted, or intimidated; and 2) causes this reaction on the part of the victim.
Subdivision 2. Harassment and Stalking Crimes
A person who harasses another by committing any of the following acts is guilty of a
misdemeanor punishable by a fine of up to $5000.00, up to one year in jail or both:
1) Directly or indirectly manifests a purpose or intent to injure a person, property, or rights
of another by the commission of an unlawful act; or
2) Stalks, follows, or pursues another; or
3) Returns to the property of another if the actor is without claim of right to the property or
consent of one with authority to consent; or
4) Repeatedly makes telephone calls, or induces a victim to make telephone calls to the
actor, whether or not conversation ensues; or
5) Makes or causes the telephone of another repeatedly or continuously to ring; or
6) Repeatedly uses mail or delivers or causes the delivery of letters, telegrams, packages, or
other objects; or
7) Engages in any other harassing conduct that interferes with another person or intrudes on
the person's privacy or liberty.
Subdivision 3. Pattern of Harassing Conduct or Stalking.
a) A person who engages in a pattern of harassing conduct with respect to a single victim or
one or more members of a single household in a manner that would cause a reasonable
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cause this reaction on the part of the victim, is guilty of a misdemeanor punishable by a
fine of up to $5000.00, up to one year in jail or both.
b) For purposes of this subdivision, a "pattern of harassing conduct" means two or more acts
within a five-year period that violate the provisions of any of the following, or any two or
more acts within a five year period that would cause a reasonable person under the
circumstances to feel oppressed, persecuted, or intimidated:
(1) Terroristic Threats
(2) Domestic Abuse
(3) Trespass
(4) Obscene or harassing telephone call
(5) Burglary
(6) Criminal Damage to Property
500.08 Trespass to Property
Any Indian who, knowing that he or she is not licensed or privileged to do so is guilty of
trespassing, which is a misdemeanor punishable by a fine of up to $5000.00, up to one year in
jail or both, if the Indian does any of the following:
a) Enters or remains in any building or occupied structure, or separately
secured or occupied portion thereof; or
b) Enters or remains in any place as to which notice against trespass is given
by actual communication to the defendant, or posting in a manner
reasonably likely to come to the attention of the defendant, or fencing or
other enclosure designed to exclude intruders.
500.09 Criminal Damage to Property
Any Indian who intentionally, negligently or recklessly, causes physical damage to property of
another without the latter's consent is guilty of a misdemeanor and may be sentenced to a fine of
up to $5000.00, up to one year in jail or both.
500.10 Burglary
Any Indian who enters a building or dwelling without consent and with intent to commit a crime
therein is guilty of burglary which is a misdemeanor punishable by a fine of up to $5000.00, up
to one year in jail or both.


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500.11 Breaking and Entering
Any Indian who enters or occupies a building or dwelling without consent of the owner or the
consent of the person who has the right to give consent; except, in emergency situations, is guilty
of breaking and entering which is a misdemeanor punishable by a fine of up to $5000.00, up to
one year in jail or both.
500.12 Coercion
Any Indian who orally or in writing makes any of the following threats and thereby causes
another against his will to do any act or forbear doing a lawful act is guilty of coercion, and shall
be punished by a fine of up to $5000.00, up to one year in jail or both:
a) A threat to unlawfully inflict bodily harm upon the person threatened; or
b) A threat unlawfully inflict damage to the property of the person
threatened; or
c) A threat to unlawfully injure a trade, business or profession of the person
threatened; or
d) A threat to expose any person to public disgrace or ridicule.
500.13 Terroristic Threats Against Government Officials
1) Any Indian who commits or attempts an act of coercion or terroristic threats directed against
any elected official of the White Earth Band of Chippewa Indians or any officer or employee of
the White Earth Band or members of their family is guilty of a misdemeanor punishable by a fine
of up to $5000.00, up to one year in jail or both.
500.14 Acts Overthrowing the Government
a) Any Indian who intentionally advocates, abets, advises or teaches the
desirability or propriety of overthrowing or destroying the government of
the White Earth Band of Chippewa Indians by force or violence or by
assassination of any such government, is guilty of a misdemeanor
punishable by a fine of up to $5000.00, up to one year in jail or both.
b) Any Indian, with intent to cause the overthrow or destruction of the
government of the White Earth Band of Chippewa Indians, prints,


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b) Intentionally threatens unlawful conduct upon another, coupled with an
apparent ability to carry out that threat, and does some act which creates a
well-found fear in such other person that such contact is imminent.
500.18 False Imprisonment
A person commits false imprisonment when, without lawful authority, the person
substantially interferes with the liberty of another by knowingly restraining the
other against his or her will and is guilty of a misdemeanor punishable by a fine of
up to $5000.00, up to one year in jail or both.