34-20-23. Intentional poisoning of food, drug, or water supply as felony.
Every person who intentionally mingles any poison with any food, drink, or medicine with intent that the same shall be taken by any human being to his injury, and every person who intentionally poisons any spring, well, or reservoir of water, is guilty of a Class 4 felony.
Source: PenC 1877, §406; CL 1887, §6607; RPenC 1903, §416; RC 1919, §4124; SDC 1939, §13.1503; SL 1977, ch 190, §50.
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.