N.D. Cent. Code § 14-09.3-01 (102) Definitions
14-09.3-01. (102) Definitions
1. "Adult" means an individual who has attained eighteen years of age or an
emancipated minor.
2. "Caretaking authority" means the right to live with and care for a child on a day-to-day
basis. The term includes physical custody, parenting time, right to access, and
visitation.
3. "Child" means:
a. An unemancipated individual who has not attained eighteen years of age; or
b. An adult son or daughter by birth or adoption, or under law of this state other than
this chapter, who is the subject of a court order concerning custodial
responsibility.
4. "Court" means a tribunal authorized under law of this state other than this chapter to
make, enforce, or modify a decision regarding custodial responsibility.
5. "Custodial responsibility" includes all powers and duties relating to caretaking authority
and decisionmaking authority for a child. The term includes physical custody, legal
custody, parenting time, right to access, visitation, and authority to grant limited contact
with a child.
6. "Decisionmaking authority" means the power to make important decisions regarding a
child, including decisions regarding the child's education, religious training, health
care, extracurricular activities, and travel. The term does not include the power to
make decisions that necessarily accompany a grant of caretaking authority.
7. "Deploying parent" means a service member, who is deployed or has been notified of
impending deployment and is:
a. A parent of a child under law of this state other than this chapter; or
b. An individual who has custodial responsibility for a child under law of this state
other than this chapter.
8. "Deployment" means the movement or mobilization of a service member for more than
ninety days but less than eighteen months pursuant to uniformed service orders that:
a. Are designated as unaccompanied;
b. Do not authorize dependent travel; or
c. Otherwise do not permit the movement of family members to the location to which
the service member is deployed.
9. "Family member" means a sibling, aunt, uncle, cousin, stepparent, or grandparent of a
child or an individual recognized to be in a familial relationship with a child under law of
this state other than this chapter.
10. "Limited contact" means the authority of a nonparent to visit a child for a limited time.
The term includes authority to take the child to a place other than the residence of the
child.
11. "Nonparent" means an individual other than a deploying parent or other parent.
12. "Other parent" means an individual who, in common with a deploying parent, is:
a. A parent of a child under law of this state other than this chapter; or
b. An individual who has custodial responsibility for a child under law of this state
other than this chapter.
13. "Record" means information that is inscribed on a tangible medium or that is stored in
an electronic or other medium and is retrievable in perceivable form.
14. "Return from deployment" means the conclusion of a service member's deployment as
specified in uniformed service orders.
15. "Service member" means a member of a uniformed service.
16. "Sign" means, with present intent to authenticate or adopt a record:
a. To execute or adopt a tangible symbol; or
b. To attach to or logically associate with the record an electronic symbol, sound, or
process.
17. "State" means a state of the United States, the District of Columbia, Puerto Rico, the
United States Virgin Islands, or any territory or insular possession subject to the
jurisdiction of the United States.
18. "Uniformed service" means:
a. Active and reserve components of the army, navy, air force, marine corps, or
coast guard of the United States;
b. The United States merchant marine;
c. The commissioned corps of the United States public health service;
d. The commissioned corps of the national oceanic and atmospheric administration
of the United States; or
e. The national guard of a state.