<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 37-21-18 - Prohibited acts--Misdemeanor. </title><meta name="Generator" content="PowerTools for Open XML" /><style>span { white-space: pre-wrap; } p.s2061665Normal { 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.s2061665SENU { font-family: 'Times New Roman', 'serif'; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: bold; margin: 0; padding: 0; } span.s2061665CL { font-family: 'Times New Roman', 'serif'; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: bold; margin: 0; padding: 0; } p.s2061665Normal-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.s2061665DefaultParagraphFont { font-family: 'Times New Roman', 'serif'; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; margin: 0; padding: 0; } p.s2061665Normal-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.s2061665000002 { font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; margin: 0; padding: 0; } span.s2061665SCL { font-family: 'Times New Roman', 'serif'; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: bold; margin: 0; padding: 0; } span.s2061665SCL-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="s2061665Normal"><a href="https://sdlegislature.gov/Statutes/Codified_Laws/DisplayStatute.aspx?Type=Statute&amp;Statute=37-21-18"><span class="s2061665SENU">37-21-18</span></a><span xml:space="preserve" class="s2061665SENU">. </span><span class="s2061665CL">Prohibited acts--Misdemeanor.</span></p><p dir="ltr" class="s2061665Normal-000000"><span class="s2061665DefaultParagraphFont">Any person who:</span></p><p dir="ltr" class="s2061665Normal-000001"><span class="s2061665DefaultParagraphFont">(1)    Offers or exposes for sale, sells, uses in buying or selling of any commodity or thing, or for hire or award, or retains in possession a false weight or measure or measuring or weighing device, or any weight or measure or weighing or measuring device that has not been sealed by the department within two years;</span></p><p dir="ltr" class="s2061665Normal-000001"><span class="s2061665DefaultParagraphFont">(2)    Disposes of any condemned weight, measure, or weighing or measuring device contrary to law;</span></p><p dir="ltr" class="s2061665Normal-000001"><span class="s2061665DefaultParagraphFont">(3)    Removes any tag placed by the department;</span></p><p dir="ltr" class="s2061665Normal-000001"><span class="s2061665DefaultParagraphFont">(4)    Sells, offers, or exposes for sale less than the quantity the person represents;</span></p><p dir="ltr" class="s2061665Normal-000001"><span class="s2061665DefaultParagraphFont">(5)    Takes or attempts to take more than the quantity the person represents, when as the buyer, the person furnished the weight, measure, or weighing or measuring device by means of which the amount of the commodity is determined;</span></p><p dir="ltr" class="s2061665Normal-000001"><span class="s2061665DefaultParagraphFont">(6)    Keeps for the purpose of sale, offers or exposes for sale, or sells any commodity in a manner contrary to law;</span></p><p dir="ltr" class="s2061665Normal-000001"><span xml:space="preserve" class="s2061665DefaultParagraphFont">(7)    Violates any provision of chapters </span><a href="https://sdlegislature.gov/Statutes/Codified_Laws/DisplayStatute.aspx?Type=Statute&amp;Statute=37-20"><span class="s2061665DefaultParagraphFont">37-20</span></a><span xml:space="preserve" class="s2061665DefaultParagraphFont"> to </span><a href="https://sdlegislature.gov/Statutes/Codified_Laws/DisplayStatute.aspx?Type=Statute&amp;Statute=37-22"><span class="s2061665DefaultParagraphFont">37-22</span></a><span class="s2061665DefaultParagraphFont">, inclusive, for which a specific penalty has not been provided; or</span></p><p dir="ltr" class="s2061665Normal-000001"><span class="s2061665DefaultParagraphFont">(8)    Sells, offers to sell, uses, or has in possession for the purpose of selling or using any device or instrument to be used, or calculated to falsify any weight or measure;</span></p><p dir="ltr" class="s2061665Normal"><span class="s2061665DefaultParagraphFont">is guilty of a Class 2 misdemeanor.</span></p><p dir="ltr" class="s2061665Normal"><span xml:space="preserve" class="s2061665000002"> </span></p><p dir="ltr" class="s2061665Normal"><span class="s2061665SCL">Source:</span><span xml:space="preserve" class="s2061665SCL-000003"> SDC 1939, §§ 63.9905, 63.9909; SDCL § </span><a href="https://sdlegislature.gov/Statutes/Codified_Laws/DisplayStatute.aspx?Type=Statute&amp;Statute=37-21-19"><span class="s2061665SCL-000003">37-21-19</span></a><span class="s2061665SCL-000003">; SL 1977, ch 190, § 289; SL 2001, ch 213, § 1; SL 2004, ch 17, § 256; SL 2016, ch 183, § 31.</span></p></div></body></html>