South Dakota § 34-35-9 Negligently allowing fire to spread as misdemeanor--Failure to extinguish fire--Interference with control efforts.

South Dakota Statutes

§ 34-35-9 — Negligently allowing fire to spread as misdemeanor--Failure to extinguish fire--Interference with control efforts.

South Dakota § 34-35-9

Title 34PUBLIC HEALTH AND SAFETY

Ch. 34-34RANGE AND FOREST FIRE PREVENTION

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Bluebook

S.D. Codified Laws § 34-35-9 (2026).

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Every person who negligently kindles or causes to be kindled, fire in any woods, brush, fields, marshes, or prairies and leaves it unquenched or who negligently or without full precaution to prevent fire spreading permits it to spread beyond his control so as to endanger the property of another, whether such fire is kindled upon his own land or not, or who, finding any uncontrolled fire burning, fails to give immediate warning and to make reasonable attempt to quench it, or who at any fire at any place is guilty of any disobedience to the lawful orders of any public official or fireman attempting to control said fire, or who interferes with any such officer in any such case or refuses to assist in controlling said fire, is guilty of a Class 1 misdemeanor.

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Every person who negligently kindles or causes to be kindled, fire in any woods, brush, fields, marshes, or prairies and leaves it unquenched or who negligently or without full precaution to prevent fire spreading permits it to spread beyond his control so as to endanger the property of another, whether such fire is kindled upon his own land or not, or who, finding any uncontrolled fire burning, fails to give immediate warning and to make reasonable attempt to quench it, or who at any fire at any place is guilty of any disobedience to the lawful orders of any public official or fireman attempting to control said fire, or who interferes with any such officer in any such case or refuses to assist in controlling said fire, is guilty of a Class 1 misdemeanor.

Legislative History

PenC 1877, §§ 458 to 460; SL 1881, ch 106, § 1; 91887, ch 123, § 1; CL 1887, §§ 2398, 6659 to 6661; RPolC 1903, § 3158; RPenC 1903, §§ 472 to 474; SL 1917, ch 239, § 1; RC 1919, §§ 3982 to 3984, 10361; SL 1925, ch 255; SL 1937, ch 93; SL 1937, ch 97; SDC 1939, § 13.1612; SL 1977, ch 190, § 92.