Any person who obtains telecommunications service by the use of a false, revoked, counterfeit or nonexistent credit card, or who obtains telecommunications service by charging the price for such service to a false or nonexistent telephone number or to an existing telephone number without the authority of the holder thereof, or who, through the use of any scheme or device, obtains the transmission of a communication without payment of the lawful charges is guilty of theft.
S.D. Codified Laws § 49-31-37
Obtaining telecommunications service without payment as theft
Source: SDC 1939, § 131.1832 as enacted by SL 1959, ch 38; SL 1969, ch 31; SL 1973, ch 285; SL 1983, ch 15, § 124; SL 1987, ch 345, § 72.
Official source: South Dakota Legislature. Reproduced from public-domain South Dakota statutes; confirm against the official source for the current text. Not legal advice.