No person may acquire any property in, or subject to dominion or control, any game bird, game animal, or game fish, or any part thereof. Game birds, game animals, and game fish are the property of the state, except as provided by § 41-1-3.
S.D. Codified Laws § 41-1-2
Game birds, animals, and fish as property of state
Applied in 3 court decisions — leading case Benson v. State (2006)
Most recently applied in State v. Klager (March 2011)
Source: SDC 1939, § 25.0411; SL 2009, ch 206, § 1.
How often courts cite this section
Court decisions citing this, by year. The dip in the last several years is a data-coverage gap, not a real trend — our corpus holds fewer opinions from the most recent years, so recent citations are undercounted.
Official source: South Dakota Legislature. Reproduced from public-domain South Dakota statutes; confirm against the official source for the current text. Not legal advice.