N.D.R.Crim.P.
RULE 59. EFFECTIVE DATE--STATUTES SUPERSEDED
(a) Effective Date. These rules will take effect on November 1, 1973. They govern all criminal proceedings thereafter commenced and so far as just and practicable all proceedings then pending. Any amendment or addition to these rules is effective on the date ordered by the supreme court. These rules, and any amendment or addition, govern all criminal proceedings and actions brought after their effective date, and all further proceedings in actions pending on their effective date. If a court decides that application of these rules, or any amendment or addition to these rules, in a particular action pending when the rules or any amendment or addition took effect would not be feasible, or would work an injustice, the previous procedure must apply.
(b) Statutes Superseded. Upon the taking effect of these rules, all statutes and parts of statutes in conflict herewith and the statutes listed as superseded in the Table of Statutes Affected are superseded. Upon the effective date of these rules, or upon the effective date of any amendment or addition to these rules, any statute or rule, or portion of a statute or rule, in conflict with these rules or any amendment or addition to these rules is superseded.
EXPLANATORY NOTE
Rule 59 was amended, effective__________________.
Rule 59 is adapted from Fed.R.Crim.P. 59, in part and from N.D.R.Civ.P. 86 in part and N.D.R.App.P. 49. The Rule rule recognizes the rule-making power of the Supreme Court supreme court as stated in N.D. Const. Art. VI, § 3, and (N.D.C.C. § 27-02-09), and follows existing law (N.D.C.C. § 27-02-14) in establishing the effective date as the 30th day after the filing of the order with the clerk of the Supreme Court unless otherwise fixed by the Supreme Court in its order. The Rules rules do not apply retroactively. [See 8A Moore's Federal Practice, Chapter 59, page 59-2 (Cipes, 2d Ed. 1971), citing McCoy v. United States, 370 F.2d 224 (D.C. Cir. 1966).] "Proceedings Actions pending" includes cases on appeal. [See 8A Moore's, supra, citing United States v. Sheridan, 329 U.S. 379, 393, 67 S. Ct. 332, 91 L. Ed. 359 (1946), rehearing denied, 329 U.S. 834, 67 S. Ct. 628, 91 L. Ed. 706 (1947).]
Rule 59 was amended, effective ______________, in response to the December 1, 2002, revision of the Federal Rules of Criminal Procedure. The language and organization of the rule were changed to make the rule more easily understood and to make style and terminology consistent throughout the rules.
SOURCES: Joint Procedure Committee Minutes of _______________ pages _____; April 24-26, 1973, page 18; February 20-23, 1973, page 5; May 6-7, 1971, page 16; 18 U.S.C.A., Fed.R.Crim.P. 59; Wright, Federal Practice and Procedure: Criminal, § § 921-922 (1969); 8A Moore's Federal Practice, Chapter 59 (Cipes, 2d Ed. 1972).