<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 33-10-251 - Desertion. </title><meta name="Generator" content="PowerTools for Open XML" /><style>span { white-space: pre-wrap; } p.s2055742Normal { 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.s2055742SENU { font-family: 'Times New Roman', 'serif'; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: bold; margin: 0; padding: 0; } span.s2055742CL { font-family: 'Times New Roman', 'serif'; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: bold; margin: 0; padding: 0; } p.s2055742Normal-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.s2055742DefaultParagraphFont { font-family: 'Times New Roman', 'serif'; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; margin: 0; padding: 0; } p.s2055742Normal-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.s2055742000002 { font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; margin: 0; padding: 0; } span.s2055742SCL { font-family: 'Times New Roman', 'serif'; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: bold; margin: 0; padding: 0; } span.s2055742SCL-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="s2055742Normal"><a href="https://sdlegislature.gov/Statutes/Codified_Laws/DisplayStatute.aspx?Type=Statute&amp;Statute=33-10-251"><span class="s2055742SENU">33-10-251</span></a><span xml:space="preserve" class="s2055742SENU">. </span><span class="s2055742CL">Desertion.</span></p><p dir="ltr" class="s2055742Normal-000000"><span class="s2055742DefaultParagraphFont">Any member of the state military forces who:</span></p><p dir="ltr" class="s2055742Normal-000001"><span class="s2055742DefaultParagraphFont">(1)    Without authority goes or remains absent from the member's unit, organization, or place of duty with intent to remain away there from permanently;</span></p><p dir="ltr" class="s2055742Normal-000001"><span class="s2055742DefaultParagraphFont">(2)    Quits the member's unit, organization, or place of duty with intent to avoid hazardous duty or to shirk important service; or</span></p><p dir="ltr" class="s2055742Normal-000001"><span class="s2055742DefaultParagraphFont">(3)    Without being regularly separated from one of the state military forces enlists or accepts an appointment in the same or another one of the state military forces, or in one of the armed forces of the United States, without fully disclosing the fact that the member has not been regularly separated, or enters any foreign armed service except when authorized by the United States;</span></p><p dir="ltr" class="s2055742Normal"><span class="s2055742DefaultParagraphFont">is guilty of desertion.</span></p><p dir="ltr" class="s2055742Normal"><span xml:space="preserve" class="s2055742000002"> </span></p><p dir="ltr" class="s2055742Normal"><span class="s2055742SCL">Source:</span><span xml:space="preserve" class="s2055742SCL-000003"> SL 2012, ch 175, § 232.</span></p></div></body></html>