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Committee approves clarifying change to timber‑damage statute after insurer, farmer testimony
Summary
Senate Bill 22,250 would modernize language used to determine when enhanced (treble) damages apply for willful or reckless damage to trees and timber. Insurers and farm groups supported the update as a clarification to limit extraordinary treble awards to intentional or reckless conduct; the committee voted to recommend the bill.
Senate Bill 22,250, which updates language in North Dakota law governing damages for wrongful injury to timber and trees, received committee approval Wednesday after insurers, farm groups and legislators described the measure as a modernization that clarifies when treble damages apply.
Sponsor Senator Jerry Klein said the existing statute dates from territorial law and contains terms such as "wrongful," "involuntary" and "casual" that can be ambiguous in modern…
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