CHAPTER 276

(HB 1039)

Insurance producers may not influence a witness.


         ENTITLED, An Act to  prohibit insurance producers from influencing witnesses.

BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF SOUTH DAKOTA:

     Section  1.  That chapter 58-30 be amended by adding thereto a NEW SECTION to read as follows:

     No insurance producer may attempt to influence a witness to decline to testify or to testify falsely or withhold any testimony, information, document, or thing in any examination or investigation by the division or hearing pursuant to Title 58 if the insurance producer has prior notice of the examination, investigation, or hearing.

     Signed February 3, 2005
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