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State of South Dakota
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SEVENTY-SEVENTH
SESSION
LEGISLATIVE ASSEMBLY, 2002 |
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HOUSE BILL
NO.
1162
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Introduced by:
Representatives Van Etten, Frost, Jensen, Konold, Madsen, and McCaulley
and Senators Albers and de Hueck
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FOR AN ACT ENTITLED, An Act to
prohibit the advertising of adoptions under certain
circumstances.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF SOUTH DAKOTA:
Section 1. No person or entity may advertise or cause to be published, within the state, an advertisement or notice of a child offered or wanted for adoption. No person or entity may hold oneself out through an advertisement as having the ability to place, locate, or receive a child for adoption. This section does not apply to the Department of Social Services, a licensed child placement agency as defined in § 26-6-14, or an attorney licensed in the State of South Dakota.
Section 2. For the purposes of this Act, an advertisement means any communication by newspaper, radio, television, handbill, placard, telephone directory, or other print, broadcast, or electronic medium.
350 copies of this document were printed by the South Dakota
Legislative Research Council at a cost of $.027 per page. . Insertions into existing statutes are indicated by underscores.
Deletions from existing statutes are indicated byoverstrikes.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF SOUTH DAKOTA:
Section 1. No person or entity may advertise or cause to be published, within the state, an advertisement or notice of a child offered or wanted for adoption. No person or entity may hold oneself out through an advertisement as having the ability to place, locate, or receive a child for adoption. This section does not apply to the Department of Social Services, a licensed child placement agency as defined in § 26-6-14, or an attorney licensed in the State of South Dakota.
Section 2. For the purposes of this Act, an advertisement means any communication by newspaper, radio, television, handbill, placard, telephone directory, or other print, broadcast, or electronic medium.
Legislative Research Council at a cost of $.027 per page. . Insertions into existing statutes are indicated by underscores.
Deletions from existing statutes are indicated by
