Any public officer or person pretending to be a public officer, who under the pretense or color of any process or other legal authority, arrests any person, or detains any person against that person's will, or seizes or levies upon any property, or dispossesses any person of any lands or tenements without due and legal process, is guilty of a Class 1 misdemeanor.
S.D. Codified Laws § 22-12-10
Arrest or seizure of property without process--Misdemeanor
Source: SDC 1939, § 13.1233; SL 1976, ch 158, § 12-5; SL 2005, ch 120, § 238.
Official source: South Dakota Legislature. Reproduced from public-domain South Dakota statutes; confirm against the official source for the current text. Not legal advice.