Homosexual activity: Illegal (imprisonment as punishment) from (unknown) to 1973.
North Dakota enacted a sterilization law for people who were "sexual deviants, perverts". Such law required no previous action, but right to sterilize based upon status alone. The law was repealed…
Sources: Laws of Dakota 1862, page 165, ch. IX, §47, enacted Apr. 28, 1862
Laws of North Dakota 1903, page 285, ch. 206, enacted Mar. 13, 1903
Laws of North Dakota 1973, ch. 117
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