2010 South Dakota Code
Title 50 - AVIATION
Chapter 11 - Registration And Licensing Of Aircraft And Pilots
Section 50-11-9 - Application for registration of aircraft--Failure to register as misdemeanor--False statement as felony--Civil penalty.

50-11-9. Application for registration of aircraft--Failure to register as misdemeanor--False statement as felony--Civil penalty. The owner or lessee of an aircraft to be operated within this state shall, except as otherwise expressly provided, file with the department on a form prescribed and furnished by the commission, an application for registration of the aircraft. A person who fails to register an aircraft within thirty days after it is operated in this state is guilty of a Class 2 misdemeanor. A person who makes a false statement of a material fact in the application is guilty of a Class 6 felony. In addition, failure to register an aircraft within ninety days of the date when registration is due shall result in a civil penalty equal to ten percent of the registration fee provided in § 50-11-12 for each month, or portion thereof, until the fee is paid, not to exceed five times the fee due.

Source: SDC 1939, § 2.0402 as enacted by SL 1949, ch 4, § 2; SL 1966, ch 1, § 1; SL 1983, ch 15, § 191; SL 1985, ch 379, § 1; SL 1993, ch 348, § 8; SL 2010, ch 227, § 72.