A person who is eighteen years of age or older and who engages in or offers to engage in sexual activity for a fee or other compensation is guilty of prostitution, a Class 1 misdemeanor.
S.D. Codified Laws § 22-23-1
Prostitution--Misdemeanor
Applied in 2 court decisions — leading case State v. Anderson (1984)
Most recently applied in State v. Jackson (July 1985)
Source: SDC 1939, § 13.1717; SL 1976, ch 158, § 23-1; SL 1977, ch 189, § 53; SL 1985, ch 183, § 1; SL 2005, ch 120, § 175; SL 2017, ch 97, § 1; SL 2019, ch 109, § 2.
Official source: South Dakota Legislature. Reproduced from public-domain South Dakota statutes; confirm against the official source for the current text. Not legal advice.