24-1-12. Service of process within penitentiary--Officers exempt from jury duty.
All process to be served within the precincts of the state penitentiary, either upon inmates or upon persons or officers employed within the precincts thereof, except upon the warden, shall be served and returned by the warden, personally or by a designee. All officers and employees of the penitentiary are exempt from serving upon juries in any state court.
Source: SDC 1939, §13.4702; SL 1980, ch 184; SL 2004, ch 168, §2.
Structure South Dakota Codified Laws
Title 24 - Penal Institutions, Probation and Parole
Chapter 01 - Management Of State Penitentiary
Section 24-1-1 - Penitentiary as general state prison.
Section 24-1-4 - Government of penitentiary by Department of Corrections.
Section 24-1-6 - Appointment and removal of warden.
Section 24-1-8 - Salary of warden.
Section 24-1-12 - Service of process within penitentiary--Officers exempt from jury duty.
Section 24-1-13 - Warden as custodian of all penitentiary property.
Section 24-1-16 - Penitentiary purchases.
Section 24-1-26 - Penitentiary employees prohibited from involvement in procuring clemencies.
Section 24-1-26.1 - Sexual acts prohibited between prison employees and prisoners--Felony.
Section 24-1-27 - Disposition of body of dead inmate--Notice to next of kin.
Section 24-1-35 - Contract with local jail for custody and care of prisoners.
Section 24-1-36 - Notice to sentencing judge of inmate's change of status.