Any person who receives, retains, or disposes of property of another knowing that the property has been stolen, or believing that the property has probably been stolen, unless the property is received, retained, or disposed of with the intent to restore the property to the owner, is guilty of theft.
S.D. Codified Laws § 22-30A-7
Receiving stolen property
Applied in 13 court decisions — leading case State v. Chipps (2016)
Most recently applied in State v. Ahmed (April 2022)
Source: SDC 1939, § 13.3813; SL 1961, ch 41; SL 1965, ch 33; SL 1966, ch 34; SDCL, § 22-37-18; SL 1976, ch 158, § 30A-12; SL 2005, ch 120, § 55.
How often courts cite this section
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.
Official source: South Dakota Legislature. Reproduced from public-domain South Dakota statutes; confirm against the official source for the current text. Not legal advice.