The director, or any person deputized by the director, upon exhibiting specific written authorization by the director, is empowered to enter any prison, jail, penal, or reformatory institution in this state, and to take or cause to be taken fingerprints or photographs, or both, and to make investigation relative to any person, confined therein, who has been accused or convicted of a crime, for the purpose of obtaining information which may lead to the identification of criminals. The officials in charge of all such institutions are hereby required to render the director, and all persons so deputized by him, the needed assistance to that end. A violation of this section is a Class 2 misdemeanor.
S.D. Codified Laws § 23-6-7
Authority of director to enter prisons and penal institutions--Misdemeanor
Known as the Uniform Criminal Statistics Act
The act spans §§ 23–23 (21 sections).
Source: SL 1939, ch 138, §§ 8, 15; SDC Supp 1960, §§ 55.15A08, 55.9933; SDCL, § 23-6-18; SL 1978, ch 169, § 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.