<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><head><meta charset="UTF-8" /><meta http-equiv='content-language' content='en-us'/><title>SDLRC - Codified Law 22-22A-2 - Incest--Prohibited sexual contact--Felony. </title><meta name="Generator" content="PowerTools for Open XML" /><style>span { white-space: pre-wrap; } p.s2047351Normal { text-align: justify; font-family: 'Times New Roman', 'serif'; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 108%; margin-top: 0; margin-left: 0; margin-right: 0; margin-bottom: .001pt; } span.s2047351SENU { font-family: 'Times New Roman', 'serif'; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: bold; margin: 0; padding: 0; } span.s2047351CL { font-family: 'Times New Roman', 'serif'; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: bold; margin: 0; padding: 0; } p.s2047351Normal-000000 { text-indent: 0.50in; text-align: justify; font-family: 'Times New Roman', 'serif'; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 108%; margin-top: 0; margin-left: 0; margin-right: 0; margin-bottom: .001pt; } span.s2047351DefaultParagraphFont { font-family: 'Times New Roman', 'serif'; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; margin: 0; padding: 0; } p.s2047351Normal-000001 { margin-left: 0.70in; text-indent: -0.45in; text-align: justify; font-family: 'Times New Roman', 'serif'; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 108%; margin-top: 0; margin-right: 0; margin-bottom: .001pt; } span.s2047351000002 { font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; margin: 0; padding: 0; } span.s2047351SCL { font-family: 'Times New Roman', 'serif'; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: bold; margin: 0; padding: 0; } span.s2047351SCL-000003 { font-family: 'Times New Roman', 'serif'; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; margin: 0; padding: 0; } body { text-decoration-skip-ink: none; } </style></head><body><div><p dir="ltr" class="s2047351Normal"><a href="https://sdlegislature.gov/Statutes/Codified_Laws/DisplayStatute.aspx?Type=Statute&amp;Statute=22-22A-2"><span class="s2047351SENU">22-22A-2</span></a><span xml:space="preserve" class="s2047351SENU">. </span><span class="s2047351CL">Incest--Prohibited sexual contact--Felony.</span></p><p dir="ltr" class="s2047351Normal-000000"><span class="s2047351DefaultParagraphFont">Any persons, eighteen years of age or older, who knowingly engage in a mutually consensual act of sexual penetration with each other:</span></p><p dir="ltr" class="s2047351Normal-000001"><span class="s2047351DefaultParagraphFont">(1)    Who are not legally married; and</span></p><p dir="ltr" class="s2047351Normal-000001"><span xml:space="preserve" class="s2047351DefaultParagraphFont">(2)    Who are within degrees of consanguinity within which marriages are, by the laws of this state, declared void pursuant to § </span><a href="https://sdlegislature.gov/Statutes/Codified_Laws/DisplayStatute.aspx?Type=Statute&amp;Statute=25-1-6"><span class="s2047351DefaultParagraphFont">25-1-6</span></a><span class="s2047351DefaultParagraphFont">;</span></p><p dir="ltr" class="s2047351Normal"><span class="s2047351DefaultParagraphFont">are guilty of incest. Incest is a Class 5 felony.</span></p><p dir="ltr" class="s2047351Normal"><span xml:space="preserve" class="s2047351000002"> </span></p><p dir="ltr" class="s2047351Normal"><span class="s2047351SCL">Source:</span><span xml:space="preserve" class="s2047351SCL-000003"> SL 2005, ch 120, § 20.</span></p></div></body></html>