Any person who offers, gives, or receives any money or other consideration or thing of value in connection with the placing of any child for adoption, or relating to the consent to adoption, or with the petition for adoption except such charges as are approved by the court and fees charged by agencies licensed pursuant to chapter 26-6, is guilty of a Class 6 felony.
S.D. Codified Laws § 25-6-4.2
Offering, giving, or receiving unauthorized consideration for adoption as felony
Applied in 1 court decision — leading case In Re the Termination of Parental Rights of Ibanez (2013)
Most recently applied in In Re the Termination of Parental Rights of Ibanez (June 2013)
Source: SL 1977, ch 205, § 1.
Official source: South Dakota Legislature. Reproduced from public-domain South Dakota statutes; confirm against the official source for the current text. Not legal advice.