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S.D. Codified Laws § 22-25-1

Gambling defined--Keeping gambling establishment--Letting building for gambling—Violation as misdemeanor

Applied in 3 court decisions — leading case State v. Auen (1984)

Most recently applied in 718 F. Supp. 755 - Sisseton-Wahpeton Sioux Tribe v. United States Department of Justice (August 1989)

Source: SDC 1939, § 24.9903; SL 1976, ch 158, § 25-1; SL 2021, ch 189, § 23.

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Court decisions citing this, by year. The dip in the last several years is a data-coverage gap, not a real trend — our corpus holds fewer opinions from the most recent years, so recent citations are undercounted.

Any person who places or accepts a wager on a sporting event or engages in gambling in any form with cards, dice, or other implements or devices of any kind wherein anything valuable is wagered upon the outcome, or who keeps any establishment, place, equipment, or apparatus for such gambling or any agents or employees for such purpose, or any person who knowingly lets any establishment, structure, place, equipment, or apparatus for such gambling is guilty of a Class 2 misdemeanor.

This section does not apply to any gaming within a licensed gaming establishment in the city of Deadwood which is conducted by an operator or route operator that is licensed pursuant to chapter 42-7B.

Official source: South Dakota Legislature. Reproduced from public-domain South Dakota statutes; confirm against the official source for the current text. Not legal advice.