34-20-14. Sale of misbranded rodenticides and insecticides as misdemeanor--Statements constituting misbranding.
It is a Class 2 misdemeanor for any person, firm, or corporation to sell, offer, expose, or keep in possession for sale or delivery in this state any mouse, rat, gopher, rodent, insect, or other poison or preparation intended for use in destroying the life of lower animals, which is misbranded. Such poisons or preparations shall be misbranded, for the purposes of this section, if the package or label shall bear any statement, design, or device regarding such substance, or the ingredients contained therein, which shall be false, deceptive, or misleading in any particular, either as to the substance itself or as to any property of the substance; or if it shall fail to bear the name and address of the manufacturer or distributor of such poison or preparation.
Source: SL 1935, ch 114, §2; SDC 1939, §22.1203; SL 1977, ch 190, §43.
Structure South Dakota Codified Laws
Title 34 - Public Health and Safety
Section 34-20-1 - Label and warnings required for specified poisons--Contents of label.
Section 34-20-2 - Schedule A--Highly toxic poisons enumerated.
Section 34-20-3 - Schedule B--Less toxic poisons enumerated.
Section 34-20-4 - Poison register for schedule A poisons--Contents of entries.
Section 34-20-6 - Prescription sales exempt from labeling and registration requirements.
Section 34-20-15 - Rodenticides and insecticides misbranded if not labeled as poison.
Section 34-20-16 - Federal rodent control program not impaired.
Section 34-20-23 - Intentional poisoning of food, drug, or water supply as felony.
Section 34-20-24 - Laying out of poison in specified places as misdemeanor.
Section 34-20-25 - Landowner permitted to lay out poison for rodents, magpies, and insects.
Section 34-20-26 - Federal program for rodent, magpie, and insect control unimpaired.
Section 34-20-27 - County application for federal assistance in rodent control.
Section 34-20-28 - State predatory animal control program unimpaired.