Any person who comes into control of property of another that the person knows to have been lost, estrayed, mislaid, or delivered under a mistake as to the nature or amount of the property or the identity of the recipient, is guilty of theft if, with intent to deprive the owner thereof, the person fails to take reasonable measures to restore the property to a person entitled to have the property.
S.D. Codified Laws § 22-30A-6
Theft of lost or mislaid property
Applied in 1 court decision — leading case In the Interests of B.J.T. (2005)
Most recently applied in In the Interests of B.J.T. (December 2005)
Source: SDC 1939, § 13.3807; SDCL, § 22-37-11; SL 1976, ch 158, § 30A-11; SL 2005, ch 120, § 54.
Official source: South Dakota Legislature. Reproduced from public-domain South Dakota statutes; confirm against the official source for the current text. Not legal advice.