34-40-1      Manufacturer's identification number required for purchase, sale, or lease of device.
34-40-2      Registration of devices with sheriff required--Notice to criminal investigation division.
34-40-3      Information included in registration.
34-40-4      Notice to sheriff of sale, loss, or theft of device.
34-40-5      Violation of chapter as misdemeanor.

34-40-1. Manufacturer's identification number required for purchase, sale, or lease of device.

No person shall knowingly purchase, sell or offer for sale, or lease, or rent or offer to lease or rent, any device designed to propel projectiles for the purpose of subcutaneous injections of tranquilizers, depressants, or other drugs into animals, which is not identified by a serial or registration number placed thereon by the manufacturer.

Source: SL 1967, ch 33, § 3.

34-40-2. Registration of devices with sheriff required--Notice to criminal investigation division.

Any person, partnership, limited liability company, firm, association, corporation, public or private, or department of state government, except a retailer possessing such device for purposes of resale, who possesses or uses a device designed to propel projectiles for the purpose of subcutaneous injections of tranquilizers, depressants, or other drugs into animals, shall register such device with the sheriff of the county in which such person resides. Each sheriff upon registration of a device under this chapter shall notify the chief agent of the criminal investigation division of such registration.

Source: SL 1967, ch 33, § 1; SL 1994, ch 351, § 65.

34-40-3. Information included in registration.

Registrations pursuant to § 34-40-2 shall set forth the name, address, and occupation of the owner and the registration or serial number imprinted on such device.

Source: SL 1967, ch 33, § 2; SL 1972, ch 15, § 3.

34-40-4. Notice to sheriff of sale, loss, or theft of device.

Whenever any registrant shall sell or lose a device registered under this chapter or have such a device stolen from him, he shall within three days report such sale, loss, or theft to the county sheriff of the county wherein the sale, loss, or theft occurred and to the sheriff of the county where the device is registered.

Source: SL 1967, ch 33, § 4.

34-40-5. Violation of chapter as misdemeanor.

Any person who violates any of the provisions of this chapter shall be guilty of a Class 2 misdemeanor.

Source: SL 1967, ch 33, § 5; SL 1977, ch 190, § 120.