CHAPTER 172

(HB 1280)

Dead bodies, penalties increased for violating provisions
relating to disposition and records.

         ENTITLED, An Act  increase the penalty for certain violations regarding vital records and the disposition of dead bodies.

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

     Section  1.  That § 34-25-57 be amended to read as follows:

     34-25-57.   Any No person, officer, agent, or employee of any other person or of any corporation or partnership who shall may :

             (1)      Inter, cremate, or otherwise finally dispose of a dead body of a human being or permit the same to be done or shall remove said the body from the state without authority of a burial or removal permit;

             (2)      Refuse or fail to furnish correctly any information in his such person's possession or shall furnish false information affecting any certificate or record required by this chapter;

             (3)      Intentionally falsify any certificate of birth, death , or burial or removal permit or any record required by this chapter;

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             (4)      Being required by this chapter to fill out a certificate of birth or death and file the same certificate with the local registrar or deliver it upon request to any person charged with the duty of filing the same shall certificate, fail, neglect, or refuse to perform;

             (5)      Being a local registrar or deputy registrar, fail, neglect, or refuse to perform his the duty as required by this chapter or by the rules and regulations adopted by the secretary of health or by the instructions and directions of the department ; .

     is guilty of a Class 2 misdemeanor A violation of this section is a Class 1 misdemeanor .

     Signed February 28, 2000.

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