S.D. Codified Laws § 34-28-1

Current through the 2024 Legislative Session

Section 34-28-1 - Allowing steam boiler or engine to endanger life as misdemeanor

Every engineer, or other person, having charge of any steam boiler, steam engine, or other apparatus for generating or employing steam, employed in any manufactory, railway, or other mechanical works, who negligently creates or allows to be created such an undue quantity of steam as to burst or break the boiler or engine or apparatus, or cause any other accident whereby human life is endangered, is guilty of a Class 1 misdemeanor.

SDCL 34-28-1

PenC 1877, § 409; CL 1887, § 6610; RPenC 1903, § 419; RC 1919, § 4127; SDC 1939, § 13.1622; SL 1977, ch 190, § 76.