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2020 South Dakota Codified Laws
Title 34 - Public Health and Safety
Chapter 27 - Cemeteries And Burial Records
- Section 34-27-1 - to 34-27-3. Repealed.
- Section 34-27-4 - Superseded.
- Section 34-27-5 - Racial discrimination in cemetery as petty offense--Restrictive covenants void--Immunity from liability for damages.
- Section 34-27-6 - Burial record book required of cemetery--Indexes--Ownership records--Official inspection.
- Section 34-27-7 - Purpose of requirements as to cemetery plats.
- Section 34-27-8 - Subdivision and platting of cemeteries required--Filing with local registrar of vital records.
- Section 34-27-9 - Numbering of grave spaces on cemetery plat--Designation of veterans' burials--Marking of burials.
- Section 34-27-10 - Cemetery plats received by local registrar--Posting when burial permit issued.
- Section 34-27-11 - Card-index records of burials maintained by local registrar--Contents.
- Section 34-27-12 - Supervision of burial record system by Department of Health--Enforcement powers.
- Section 34-27-13 - Filing by local registrars of data from graves registration survey project--Fees not receivable.
- Section 34-27-14 - Violation or failure to maintain records as misdemeanor.
- Section 34-27-15 - Duty of reinterment when cemetery removed--Punishment for omission of duty.
- Section 34-27-16 - Liability for expense of reinterment on removal of cemetery.
- Section 34-27-17 - Punishment for omission to reinter when cemetery removed.
- Section 34-27-18 - Opening grave or breaking building with intent to remove body or coffin as misdemeanor.
- Section 34-27-19 - Removing dead body maliciously or with intent to sell or dissect as misdemeanor.
- Section 34-27-20 - Receiving dead body unlawfully removed as misdemeanor.
- Section 34-27-21 - Definition of terms.
- Section 34-27-22 - Buying, selling, or bartering human skeletal remains or funerary objects as felony.
- Section 34-27-23 - Repealed.
- Section 34-27-24 - Commercial display of human skeletal remains or funerary objects as felony.
- Section 34-27-25 - Reporting discovery of human skeletal remains--Failure to report as misdemeanor.
- Section 34-27-26 - Disturbing human skeletal remains or funerary objects as felony.
- Section 34-27-27 - Repealed.
- Section 34-27-28 - Notification to landowner and coroner--Notification to state archaeologist and tribal officials--Time limits.
- Section 34-27-29 - Repealed.
- Section 34-27-30 - Rules promulgated by State Historical Society Board of Trustees.
- Section 34-27-31 - Discovery of human remains or funerary objects by state educational institution or museum--Contact state archaeologist--Notice to tribal officials--Tribal request--Disposition of remains or objects.
- Section 34-27-32 - Refusal to turn over remains or objects to tribal group--Appeal.
- Section 34-27-33 - Confidentiality of archaeological records pertaining to location of unmarked burials and other human remains--Exceptions.
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