Any structure, conveyance, or place where alcoholic beverages are manufactured, sold, kept, bartered, given away, found, consumed, or used in violation of the laws of the state, relating to alcoholic beverages, and all alcoholic beverages and property kept and used in maintaining the same, is hereby declared to be a common nuisance, and any person who maintains such a common nuisance is guilty of a Class 1 misdemeanor.
S.D. Codified Laws § 35-10-17
Place used for violation of beverage laws as common nuisance--Maintenance as misdemeanor
Applied in 2 court decisions — leading case Gleason v. Peters (1997)
Most recently applied in State v. Adamson (September 2007)
Source: SL 1939, ch 15, § 1; SL 1943, ch 13; SDC Supp 1960, § 5.0114-2; SL 1971, ch 211, § 116; SL 1977, ch 190, § 135.
Official source: South Dakota Legislature. Reproduced from public-domain South Dakota statutes; confirm against the official source for the current text. Not legal advice.