2016 South Dakota Codified Laws
Title 34 - PUBLIC HEALTH AND SAFETY
Chapter 12D - Living Wills
§ 34-12D-24 Standing to bring injunctive relief against person believed to be about to assist in suicide.
34-12D-24. Standing to bring injunctive relief against person believed to be about to assist in suicide. A cause of action for injunctive relief may be maintained against any person who is reasonably believed to be about to violate or who is in the course of violating § 22-16-37 by any person who is:
(1) The spouse, parent, child, sibling, legally appointed guardian, or conservator of the person who would commit suicide;
(2) Entitled to inherit under the laws of intestate succession from the person who would commit suicide or the beneficiary under a life insurance policy of the person who would commit suicide;
(3) Any health care provider of the person who would commit suicide;
(4) Any public official with appropriate jurisdiction to prosecute or enforce the laws of this state.
Source: SDCL § 22-16-37.2; SL 2005, ch 120, §§ 169, 170.
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