Reporting of abuse, neglect, or exploitation - Immunity for good-faith reports
N.D. Cent. Code § 25-01.3-04
in effect25-01.3-04. Reporting of abuse, neglect, or exploitation - Immunity for good-faith
reports.
1. Every medical, mental health, or developmental disabilities professional, educational
professional, police or law enforcement officer, or caretaker having knowledge of or
reasonable cause to suspect that an adult with developmental disabilities or mental
illness coming before the individual providing services in that individual's official or
professional capacity is abused, neglected, or exploited shall report the circumstances
of that abuse, neglect, or exploitation to the project. For the purposes of this section:
a. "Educational professional" means a professional providing educational services
either at a school, academy, or other educational facility, or at a private facility or
residence, as a teacher, professor, tutor, aide, administrator, or other education
professional.
b. "Medical, mental health, or developmental disabilities professional" means a
professional providing health care or services to persons with developmental
disabilities or mental illnesses, on a full-time or part-time basis, on an individual
basis or at the request of a caretaker, and includes a physician, medical
examiner, coroner, dentist, optometrist, chiropractor, nurse, physical therapist,
mental health professional, hospital personnel, nursing home personnel,
congregate care personnel, social worker, or any other person providing medical,
mental health, or developmental disabilities services.
2. An individual not listed in subsection 1 having knowledge of or reasonable cause to
suspect that an adult with developmental disabilities or mental illness is abused,
neglected, or exploited may report those circumstances to the committee or the
project.
3. An individual other than the alleged perpetrator participating in good faith in the
making of a report, assisting an investigator, furnishing information to an advocate or
other employee of the committee, or in providing protective services under this section,
is immune from any liability, civil or criminal, that otherwise might result from the
reporting of the alleged case of abuse, neglect, or exploitation.
Source: Open US Law by Vaquill AI (CC BY 4.0)URL: https://ndlegis.gov/cencode/t25c01-3.pdf#nameddest=25-01p3-04Fetched: 10/16/2026