South Dakota § 34-27-18 Opening grave or breaking building with intent to remove body or coffin as misdemeanor.

South Dakota Statutes

§ 34-27-18 — Opening grave or breaking building with intent to remove body or coffin as misdemeanor.

South Dakota § 34-27-18

Title 34PUBLIC HEALTH AND SAFETY

Ch. 34-27CEMETERIES AND BURIAL RECORDS

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S.D. Codified Laws § 34-27-18 (2026).

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Every person who opens any grave or any place of burial, temporary or otherwise, or who breaks open any building wherein any dead body of a human being is deposited while awaiting burial, with intent either:

(1)To remove any dead body of a human being for the purpose of selling the same or for the purpose of dissection; or (2) To steal the coffin, or any part thereof, or anything attached thereto or connected therewith, or the vestments or other articles buried with the same; is guilty of a Class 1 misdemeanor.

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Every person who opens any grave or any place of burial, temporary or otherwise, or who breaks open any building wherein any dead body of a human being is deposited while awaiting burial, with intent either: (1) To remove any dead body of a human being for the purpose of selling the same or for the purpose of dissection; or (2) To steal the coffin, or any part thereof, or anything attached thereto or connected therewith, or the vestments or other articles buried with the same; is guilty of a Class 1 misdemeanor.