34-27-14. Violation or failure to maintain records as misdemeanor.
Any person, officer, agent, or employee of any other person or of any corporation or partnership who shall:
(1)Refuse or fail to furnish correctly any information in his possession or shall furnish false information affecting any certificate or record required by this chapter;
(2)Intentionally alter, otherwise than as provided by §34-25-51, or falsify any record required by this chapter; or
(3)Being a person, firm, association, church, religious or benevolent society, or corporation, or an employee, officer, or agent thereof, owning or having under his or its control, any cemetery or place of burial, fail, neglect, or refuse to keep and maintain the record of burials as required by this chapter;
is guilty of a Class 2 misdemeanor.
Source: SL 1931, ch 267, §21; SDC 1939, §27.9902; SL 1941, ch 124, §8; SL 1977, ch 190, §72.
Structure South Dakota Codified Laws
Title 34 - Public Health and Safety
Chapter 27 - Cemeteries And Burial Records
Section 34-27-7 - Purpose of requirements as to cemetery plats.
Section 34-27-10 - Cemetery plats received by local registrar--Posting when burial permit issued.
Section 34-27-11 - Card-index records of burials maintained by local registrar--Contents.
Section 34-27-12 - Supervision of burial record system by Department of Health--Enforcement powers.
Section 34-27-14 - Violation or failure to maintain records as misdemeanor.
Section 34-27-15 - Duty of reinterment when cemetery removed--Punishment for omission of duty.
Section 34-27-16 - Liability for expense of reinterment on removal of cemetery.
Section 34-27-17 - Punishment for omission to reinter when cemetery removed.
Section 34-27-19 - Removing dead body maliciously or with intent to sell or dissect as misdemeanor.
Section 34-27-20 - Receiving dead body unlawfully removed as misdemeanor.
Section 34-27-21 - Definition of terms.
Section 34-27-24 - Commercial display of human skeletal remains or funerary objects as felony.
Section 34-27-25 - Reporting discovery of human skeletal remains--Failure to report as misdemeanor.
Section 34-27-26 - Disturbing human skeletal remains or funerary objects as felony.
Section 34-27-30 - Rules promulgated by State Historical Society Board of Trustees.
Section 34-27-32 - Refusal to turn over remains or objects to tribal group--Appeal.