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South Dakota Codified Laws
Title 41 - GAME, FISH, PARKS AND FORESTRY
Chapter 15 - ENFORCEMENT POWERS AND PROCEDURES
Section 41-15-15 - Seizure of hunting and fishing equipment for use as evidence-Return to defendant-Abandonment by failure to claim

S.D. Codified Laws § 41-15-15

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Section 41-15-15 - Seizure of hunting and fishing equipment for use as evidence-Return to defendant-Abandonment by failure to claim

Any law enforcement officer may seize and hold, for the purpose of being used as evidence at any trial, any hunting and fishing equipment used in violation of the game and fish laws. Such equipment shall be returned to the defendant under the direction of the court or magistrate when its purpose as evidence has been fulfilled. Any property left in the possession of the court or any law enforcement officer for a period of one year after its purpose as evidence has been fulfilled is deemed abandoned.

SDCL 41-15-15

SDC 1939, § 25.0422 as added by SL 1963, ch 135, § 2; SL 1969, ch 100; SL 2009, ch 206, §89.