South Dakota Codified Laws
Chapter 36 - Predatory Animal And Reptile Control
Section 40-36-27 - Killing of predatory animal without hunting license--Falsification of bounty claim--Violation as misdemeanor.

40-36-27. Killing of predatory animal without hunting license--Falsification of bounty claim--Violation as misdemeanor.
Except as provided by §40-36-16, it is a Class 2 misdemeanor for any person to hunt, take, or kill predatory animals without possessing a resident small game license or a resident predator/varmint license. It is a Class 1 misdemeanor for any person to falsify any bounty claim, or to claim a bounty on any skin for which a bounty has been paid or refused.

Source: SDC 1939, §25.1002 as enacted by SL 1961, ch 123, §2; SL 1977, ch 190, §541; SL 1998, ch 252, §3; SL 2020, ch 179, § 2.

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Structure South Dakota Codified Laws

South Dakota Codified Laws

Title 40 - Animals and Livestock

Chapter 36 - Predatory Animal And Reptile Control

Section 40-36-1 - Department of Game, Fish and Parks to cooperate with federal agency in control of injurious wild animals.

Section 40-36-3 - Department of Agriculture and Natural Resources cooperative agreements for control of injurious wild animals.

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 40-36-11 - County appropriations to animal damage control fund--Certification of amounts--State matching funds.

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 40-36-18 - Investigation of animal skin by conservation officer--Recommendation as to acceptance for bounty.

Section 40-36-19 - Marking of skin accepted for bounty.

Section 40-36-20 - Certificate on rejection of skin for bounty--Action for bounty--Use of skin as evidence--Costs.

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 40-36-26 - Bounty claim as misdemeanor when animal died from natural causes--Animal killed by federal or other agency.

Section 40-36-27 - Killing of predatory animal without hunting license--Falsification of bounty claim--Violation as misdemeanor.

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 40-36-34 - Special tax on sheep in eastern counties levied on petition of sheep owners--Predatory animals defined.

Section 40-36-35 - Payment of bounties and employment of hunters from proceeds of special tax on sheep.

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 - Employment of personnel for extermination of rodents and reptiles--Purchase and distribution of equipment and supplies--Bounties prohibited.

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.