CHAPTER 123

(HB 1048)

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Court service officers, crime to threaten.

         ENTITLED, An Act to  make threatening court services officers a crime.

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

     Section  1.  That § 22-11-15 be amended to read as follows:

     22-11-15.   Any person who, directly or indirectly, utters or addresses any threat or intimidation to any judicial or ministerial officer, juror, referee, arbitrator, umpire, or director of equalization, or other person authorized by law to hear or determine any controversy, or any court services officer, with intent to induce him such person either to do any act not authorized by law, or to omit or delay the performance of any duty imposed upon him such person by law, or for having performed any duty imposed upon him such person by law, is guilty of a Class 5 felony.

     Signed February 14, 2003.

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