Every person who makes or procures to be made any dissection of the body of a human being, except by authority of law or in pursuance of a permission given by the decedent, is guilty of a Class 1 misdemeanor.
S.D. Codified Laws § 34-26-13
Unauthorized dissection of body as misdemeanor
Known as the Revised Uniform Anatomical Gift Act
The act spans §§ 34–34 (58 sections).
Applied in 1 court decision — leading case Chisum v. Behrens (1979)
Most recently applied in Chisum v. Behrens (September 1979)
Source: PenC 1877, § 352; CL 1887, § 6553; RPenC 1903, § 357; RC 1919, § 3871; SDC 1939, § 13.1417; SL 1977, ch 190, § 68.
Official source: South Dakota Legislature. Reproduced from public-domain South Dakota statutes; confirm against the official source for the current text. Not legal advice.