South Dakota Statutes

§ 34-28-1 — Allowing steam boiler or engine to endanger life as misdemeanor.

South Dakota § 34-28-1
JurisdictionSouth Dakota
Title 34PUBLIC HEALTH AND SAFETY
Ch. 34-28SAFETY HAZARDS IN GENERAL

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S.D. Codified Laws § 34-28-1 (2026).

Text

Every engineer, or other person, having charge of any steam boiler, steam engine, or other apparatus for generating or employing steam, employed in any manufactory, railway, or other mechanical works, who negligently creates or allows to be created such an undue quantity of steam as to burst or break the boiler or engine or apparatus, or cause any other accident whereby human life is endangered, is guilty of a Class 1 misdemeanor.

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Legislative History

PenC 1877, § 409; CL 1887, § 6610; RPenC 1903, § 419; RC 1919, § 4127; SDC 1939, § 13.1622; SL 1977, ch 190, § 76.

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