<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 32-12A-45 - Persons authorized to withdraw blood to determine alcohol content--Liability. </title><meta name="Generator" content="PowerTools for Open XML" /><style>span { white-space: pre-wrap; } p.s2054512Normal { margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0; text-align: justify; font-family: 'Times New Roman', 'serif'; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 108%; margin-left: 0; margin-right: 0; } span.s2054512SENU { font-family: 'Times New Roman', 'serif'; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: bold; margin: 0; padding: 0; } span.s2054512CL { font-family: 'Times New Roman', 'serif'; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: bold; margin: 0; padding: 0; } p.s2054512Normal-000000 { margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0; text-indent: 0.50in; text-align: justify; font-family: 'Times New Roman', 'serif'; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 108%; margin-left: 0; margin-right: 0; } span.s2054512DefaultParagraphFont { font-family: 'Times New Roman', 'serif'; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; margin: 0; padding: 0; } span.s2054512000001 { font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; margin: 0; padding: 0; } span.s2054512SCL { font-family: 'Times New Roman', 'serif'; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: bold; margin: 0; padding: 0; } span.s2054512SCL-000002 { 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="s2054512Normal"><a href="https://sdlegislature.gov/Statutes/Codified_Laws/DisplayStatute.aspx?Type=Statute&amp;Statute=32-12A-45"><span class="s2054512SENU">32-12A-45</span></a><span xml:space="preserve" class="s2054512SENU">. </span><span class="s2054512CL">Persons authorized to withdraw blood to determine alcohol content--Liability.</span></p><p dir="ltr" class="s2054512Normal-000000"><span class="s2054512DefaultParagraphFont">Only a physician, laboratory technician, registered nurse, physician's assistant, phlebotomist, licensed practical nurse, medical technician, medical technologist, or other person authorized pursuant to certification, license, or training may withdraw blood for the purpose of determining the alcoholic content therein for the purposes of this chapter. This limitation does not apply to the taking of a breath or other bodily substance specimen. No such authorized person, acting on the presumption of consent, and no hospital employing such person, may be held liable to pay damages to the party from whom the blood sample is withdrawn, if the withdrawal is administered with usual and ordinary care.</span></p><p dir="ltr" class="s2054512Normal"><span xml:space="preserve" class="s2054512000001"> </span></p><p dir="ltr" class="s2054512Normal"><span class="s2054512SCL">Source:</span><span xml:space="preserve" class="s2054512SCL-000002"> SL 1991, ch 252, § 15; SDCL § 32-12-110.2; SL 2001, ch 171, § 115; SL 2010, ch 163, § 1.</span></p></div></body></html>