{"id":"DUT-SD-005","kind":"duty","level":"state","jurisdiction":"South Dakota","state":"SD","metro":"","industry":"","agency":"","eco":"","issuer":"South Dakota Legislature (codified statute)","authority":"S.D. Codified Laws title 34, ch. 34-16 (Nuisances and Health Hazards)","instrument":"SDCL ch. 34-16, Nuisances and Health Hazards (§§ 34-16-1, 34-16-2, 34-16-5, 34-16-19 to 34-16-21)","title":"Act endangering public health as misdemeanor; release of disease germs as felony; access of health officers to places where a source of disease is suspected; notice to owner of nuisance or cause of sickness and abatement at owner\u0027s expense","dateIssued":"2026-09-29","effective":"standing","end":"standing","startDate":"2026-09-29","endDate":"","quarters":["2020Q2","2020Q3","2020Q4","2021Q1","2021Q2","2021Q3"],"types":["DUTY","OTHER"],"addressees":["persons generally; owners of property; occupants of any building or place where contagion exists or is suspected"],"clause":"Every person who intentionally commits any act which grossly endangers the public health is guilty of a Class 1 misdemeanor.... All members, officers, and employees of the state department and local boards of health shall have the right to enter any building, conveyance, or place where contagion, infection... exists or is reasonably suspected to exist.","enforcement":"Class 1 misdemeanor (34-16-1): one year or $2,000 (Ex. DUT-SD-007); Class 2 felony for spreading disease germs with intent to infect (34-16-2); abatement at the owner\u0027s expense (34-16-20)","functions":[],"notes":"Every person is forbidden, on pain of a Class 1 misdemeanor, to commit any act which \u0027grossly endangers the public health\u0027 (34-16-1); State and local health officers may enter any \u0027building, conveyance, or place where contagion, infection... exists or is reasonably suspected to exist\u0027 (34-16-5); and the owner of property on which \u0027any nuisance, source of filth, cause of sickness or condition which endangers the public health is found\u0027 must take the corrective action stated in the county health officer\u0027s written notice or have it abated \u0027at the expense of the property owner\u0027 (34-16-19, -20).","sourceUrl":"https://sdlegislature.gov/api/Statutes/34-16.html?all=true","snapshot":"","fileExists":true,"fileBytes":129973,"grade":"primary","character":"statutory_duty","description":"","collection":"DUT-SD","url":"/library/DUT-SD-005","exhibitUrl":"/exhibit/DUT-SD-005","citation":"South Dakota Legislature (codified statute), SDCL ch. 34-16, Nuisances and Health Hazards (§§ 34-16-1, 34-16-2, 34-16-5, 34-16-19 to 34-16-21) (standing) (Ex. DUT-SD-005)","stateName":"South Dakota","related":["DUT-SD-001","DUT-SD-007","DUT-SD-006","DUT-SD-010","DUT-SD-011","DUT-SD-017"]}