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HB 1064 clarify the law enforcement authority of...

State of South Dakota  
SEVENTY-SIXTH SESSION
LEGISLATIVE ASSEMBLY,  2001
 

400E0195  
HOUSE BILL   NO.     1064  

        Introduced by: The Committee on Judiciary at the request of the Department of Game, Fish and Parks  


         FOR AN ACT ENTITLED, An Act to  clarify the law enforcement authority of conservation officers.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF SOUTH DAKOTA:
     Section  1.  That § 41-15-10 be amended to read as follows:
     41-15-10.   Conservation While performing their lawful duties assigned to them by the Department of Game, Fish and Parks, conservation officers and their supervisors shall have full power and authority to serve and execute all warrants and process of law issued by a court in enforcing the provisions of any law of the state relating to matters under the jurisdiction of the Department of Game, Fish and Parks in the same manner as any constable or sheriff may serve and execute the same , or . While performing their lawful duties assigned to them by the Department of Game, Fish and Parks, conservation officers and their supervisors have full power and authority to arrest, without a warrant of , any person detected in the act of violating any such laws of this state which they are authorized to enforce . For the purpose of enforcing the game, fish, parks , and boating laws, they may call to their aid any peace law enforcement officer or other persons, and it shall be the duty of all state's attorneys, peace law enforcement officers, and

other persons when shall, if called upon, to enforce and aid in enforcing such laws. For purposes of this section the term , " conservation officers" shall be defined to mean those officer, means any game, fish and parks employees employee whose duty is the enforcement of the game, fish and , parks , and boating laws of this state.