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2019 South Dakota Codified Laws
Title 28 - Public Welfare and Assistance
Chapter 17 - County Burial
§ 28-17-1 County to employ funeral director to supervise burial or cremation of indigent person.
Universal Citation: SD Codified L § 28-17-1 (2019)
28-17-1. County to employ funeral director to supervise burial or cremation of indigent person. If any person dies within any county, who does not have money or means necessary to defray the funeral expenses, and whose relatives or friends are unable or unwilling to defray the expenses, the county commissioners shall employ a funeral director to provide for and superintend the burial or cremation of the deceased person.
Source: SDC 1939, § 50.0105; SL 1976, ch 173, § 23; SL 2012, ch 152, § 1.
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