40-36-15. Bounties payable for coyotes--Restrictions on payments--Fraud--Penalty.
The following bounties may be paid from the state animal damage control fund to any resident of this state who possesses a resident small game license or a resident predator/varmint license and who kills, within the boundaries of this state, including parks and monuments, the following animals:
(1)For each adult coyote, five dollars;
(2)For each coyote pup, five dollars.
The Game, Fish and Parks Commission may not approve any bounty claim except during the months of April, May, and June. No bounty payments may be made under this section unless the commission determines that the average price of raw furs in the round for the preceding winter is below five dollars per animal.
Any person who exhibits to a county auditor the skin of an animal which was killed outside of the boundaries of that county, or who patches any skin or part of skin, for the purpose of defrauding the State of South Dakota, in any manner, is guilty of a Class 1 misdemeanor.
Source: SDC 1939, §25.1001; SL 1941, ch 122; SL 1945, ch 36, §10; SL 1947, ch 115; SL 1951, ch 126; SL 1961, ch 123, §1; SL 1963, ch 141, §1; SL 1967, ch 90; SL 1972, ch 220; SL 1978, ch 288, §1; SL 1983, ch 292, §16; SL 1991, ch 186, §30; SL 1998, ch 252, §1; SL 2020, ch 179, § 1.
Structure South Dakota Codified Laws
Title 40 - Animals and Livestock
Chapter 36 - Predatory Animal And Reptile Control
Section 40-36-3.1 - Prairie dog control program on private lands.
Section 40-36-9 - Programs and rules for control of injurious animals--Payment of expenses.
Section 40-36-10 - Animal damage control fund created.
Section 40-36-13 - Semiannual county payments to fund.
Section 40-36-14 - Expenditures from fund.
Section 40-36-15 - Bounties payable for coyotes--Restrictions on payments--Fraud--Penalty.
Section 40-36-16 - Hunting license not required of landowner to receive bounty.
Section 40-36-17 - Skin delivered to county auditor to claim bounty--Examination by auditor.
Section 40-36-19 - Marking of skin accepted for bounty.
Section 40-36-21 - Affidavit filed when bounty claim approved by county auditor.
Section 40-36-23 - Approval or disapproval of bounty claim by Game, Fish and Parks Commission.
Section 40-36-24 - Final approval and payment of bounty claim.
Section 40-36-25 - Appeal from disapproval of bounty claim.
Section 40-36-28 - Importation or breeding of animals to claim bounty as petty offense.
Section 40-36-29 - False bounty claim as perjury.
Section 40-36-32 - Audit of predatory animal control fund.
Section 40-36-33 - Predatory animal control fund carried over from year to year.
Section 40-36-36 - Rate of bounties payable from special tax on sheep--Rules and regulations.
Section 40-36-37 - County bounty payable on coyotes.
Section 40-36-38 - Educational campaign for rodent and reptile control.
Section 40-36-39.1 - South Dakota rodent control fund.
Section 40-36-39.2 - Validation of rodent control agreements.
Section 40-36-40 - Disposition of carcasses of rodents and reptiles taken--Use of proceeds of sale.
Section 40-36-41 - Records of rodent and reptile work.
Section 40-36-46 - Policy advisory committee for animal damage control.