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A. For purposes of this section:

1. Endangered runaway child” means an unemancipated minor who is voluntarily absent from the home for seventy-two (72) hours or more without a compelling reason and without the consent of a custodial parent or other custodial adult or an unemancipated minor who is voluntarily absent from the home without a compelling reason and without the consent of a custodial parent or other custodial adult and the child needs medication or other special services.

2. Compelling reason” means imminent danger from incest, a life-threatening situation, or equally traumatizing circumstance.

B. Any person who knowingly feeds, lodges, clothes, arms, equips in whole or in part, harbors, aids, assists or conceals in any manner any person guilty of any crime or felony, or outlaw, or fugitive from justice, or any person seeking to escape arrest for any crime or felony committed within the Osage Nation or any state or territory; or for any person to knowingly and willfully harbor an endangered runaway child commits the criminal offense of harboring fugitive or endangered runaway child.

C. Any person convicted of committing the criminal offense of harboring fugitive or endangered runaway child shall be guilty of a crime punishable by a fine not exceeding One Thousand Dollars ($1,000.00), or by imprisonment in the Tribal Jail not exceeding one year, or both. ONCA 22-33, eff. Apr. 25, 2022.