PART I - GENERAL PROVISIONS
ARTICLE 1. PRELIMINARY

§1.06. Time Limitations.
(1) A prosecution for murder may be commenced at any time.
(2) Prosecution for other offenses are subject to the following periods of limitation:
(a) a prosecution for a felony or a misdemeanor must be commenced within six years after it is committed;
(b) a prosecution for a petty misdemeanor or a violation must be commenced within one year after it is committed.
(3) An offense is committed either when every element occurs, or if a legislative purpose to prohibit a continuing course of conduct plainly appears, at the time when the course of conductor the person's complicity therein is terminated. Time starts to run on the day after the offense is committed.
(4) A prosecution is commenced when a complaint, information, or citation is filed or when a warrant or other process is issued, provided that such warrant or process is executed without unreasonable delay.
(5) The period of limitation does not run:
(a) during any time when the accused is continuously absent from the Republic or has no reasonably ascertainable place of abode or work within the Republic, but in no case shall this provision extend the period of limitation otherwise applicable by more than three years; or
(b) during any time when a prosecution against the accused for the same conduct is pending in the Republic. [Amended by P.L.2013-28]