34-01 General Provisions
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something for the benefit of the employer or of a third person.34-01-02. Personal service contract - Time limit - Continuation of employment. Acontract to render personal service cannot be enforced against the employee beyond the term of
two years from the commencement of service under it, but if the employee voluntarily continues
the employee's service under it beyond that time, the contract may be referred to as affording a
presumptive measure of the compensation.34-01-03.Voluntary service without employment - Duties of person rendering -Rights to compensation and expenses. One who officiously and without the consent of the
real or apparent owner of a thing takes it into possession for the purpose of rendering a service
about it must complete such service and use ordinary care, diligence, and reasonable skill about
the same. The person is not entitled to any compensation for the person's service or expenses,
except that the person may deduct actual and necessary expenses incurred by the person about
such service from any profits which the person's service has caused the thing to acquire for its
owner and must account to the owner for the residue.34-01-04. Intimidation, force, and threats against employees prohibited - Penalty.Every person who, by any use of force, threats, or intimidation, prevents any person employed by
another from continuing or performing the person's work or from accepting any new work or
employment, and every person who uses any force, threats, or intimidation to induce such hired
person to relinquish the person's work or employment or to return any work the person has in
hand before it is finished, is guilty of a class B misdemeanor.34-01-05. Intimidation, force, and threats against employers prohibited - Penalty.Every person who, by any use of force, threats, or intimidation, prevents another from employing
any person, and every person who uses force, threats, or intimidation to compel another to
employ any person, or to force or induce another to alter that person's mode of carrying on
business, or to limit or increase the number of persons employed by that person, or their rate of
wages or time of service, is guilty of a class B misdemeanor.34-01-06.Hindering person from obtaining or enjoying employment - Penalty.Every person who maliciously interferes or hinders, in any way, any person from obtaining
employment or from enjoying employment already obtained from any other person, is guilty of a
class A misdemeanor.34-01-07. Black list prohibited - Punishment. Repealed by S.L. 1975, ch. 106,