37-20-32. Placing foreign substance in package to increase weight as misdemeanor.
Every person who, in putting up in any bag, bale, box, barrel, or other package any hops, cotton, hay, or other goods usually sold in bags, bales, boxes, barrels, or packages, by weight, puts in or conceals therein anything whatever for the purpose of increasing the weight of such bag, bale, box, barrel, or package, is guilty of a Class 1 misdemeanor.
Source: SDC 1939, §63.9908; SL 1977, ch 190, §286.
Structure South Dakota Codified Laws
Chapter 20 - Standard Weights And Measures
Section 37-20-1 - Definitions.
Section 37-20-1.1 - Federally supplied weights and measures adopted as state standards.
Section 37-20-3 - Reference standards, working standards, and field standards.
Section 37-20-4 - Verification and sealing of working standards and field standards.
Section 37-20-5 - Working standards used to test weighing and measuring devices.
Section 37-20-31 - Marking false weight on container as misdemeanor.
Section 37-20-32 - Placing foreign substance in package to increase weight as misdemeanor.