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South Dakota Codified Laws
Title 40 - ANIMALS AND LIVESTOCK
Chapter 1 - CRUELTY, ABUSE AND INJURY TO ANIMALS
Section 40-1-12 - Allowing fatally injured or diseased animal to suffer needlessly prohibited-Violation as misdemeanor

S.D. Codified Laws § 40-1-12

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Section 40-1-12 - Allowing fatally injured or diseased animal to suffer needlessly prohibited-Violation as misdemeanor

No person may keep any animal which is injured or diseased, past recovery, or unfit for any useful purpose and in suffering, or intentionally abandon to die any sick or disabled animal. A violation of this section is a Class 1 misdemeanor.

SDCL 40-1-12

SDC 1939, § 40.2206; SL 1977, ch 190, § 448; SL 1991, ch 186, § 7; SL 1991, ch 331, § 27.