23-4-1
Repealed.
23-4-2
Possession by felon of police radio as misdemeanor--Radio stations unaffected.
23-4-3
Repealed.
23-4-4
Federal licensees exempt from chapter.
23-4-5
Repealed.
23-4-6
Transferred.
23-4-7
Possession of device receiving law enforcement or emergency dispatch
communications while committing felony--Misdemeanor.
23-4-2. Possession by felon of police radio as misdemeanor--Radio stations unaffected.
No person who has been convicted of a felony in this state or elsewhere within the past ten years shall possess any frequency modulation receiving equipment capable of being so adjusted or tuned as to receive messages or signals on frequencies assigned by the Federal Communications Commission to local or state law enforcement officers, or to the state or any of its agencies. Any person who violates this section is guilty of a Class 2 misdemeanor. Nothing in this section shall be construed to affect any radio station licensed by the Federal Communications System.
Source: SL 1965, ch 223, § 6; SDCL, § 23-4-6; SL 1976, ch 161; SL 1978, ch 169, §§ 1, 19.
23-4-4. Federal licensees exempt from chapter.
This chapter does not apply to any holders of a valid amateur radio operator or station license issued by the Federal Communications Commission.
Source: SL 1965, ch 233, § 4.
23-4-7. Possession of device receiving law enforcement or emergency dispatch communications while committing felony--Misdemeanor.
Any person who possesses any device actively receiving law enforcement or emergency dispatch audio or emergency dispatch text while committing a felony is guilty of a Class 1 misdemeanor.
Source: SL 2015, ch 135, § 1.
