The appropriate circuit and magistrate courts in this state shall have authority to issue search warrants for such inspections upon a showing by the secretary of agriculture and natural resources that there is probable cause to believe that there exists in or on the property to be inspected a pest, host, or other article subject to the provisions of this chapter.
S.D. Codified Laws § 38-24A-15
Issuance of search warrants
Known as the South Dakota Plant Quarantine Act
The act spans §§ 38-24A-1–38-24A-9.1 (23 sections).
Source: SL 1971, ch 220, § 8; SL 2021, ch 1 (Ex
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