§ 37-17-1 — Sale after removal or alteration of serial number as misdemeanor or felony.

Any person who knowingly sells or offers for sale any agricultural implement, farm tractor, or other type of farm machinery or equipment, or radio, piano, phonograph, sewing machine, washing machine, typewriter, adding machine, comptometer, bicycle, firearm, safe, vacuum cleaner, dictating machine, tape recorder, watch, watch movement, watch case, or any mechanical or electrical device, appliance, contrivance, material, piece of apparatus, or equipment, which is identified by a serial number placed thereon by the manufacturer, the original serial number of which has been destroyed, removed, altered, covered, or defaced, is guilty of a Class 2 misdemeanor if the value of the property is four hundred dollars or less. If the value of the property is more than four hundred dollars and less than one thousand dollars, such person is guilty of a Class 1 misdemeanor. If the value of the property is one thousand dollars or greater, such person is guilty of a Class 4 felony.

Legislative History

SL 1951, ch 261; SDC Supp 1960, § 54.1102; SL 1966, ch 156; SL 1977, ch 190, § 275; SL 2006, ch 130, § 15.