Section 22-46-3 - Theft by exploitation--Penalty. - South Dakota Statutes

22-46-3. Theft by exploitation--Penalty. Any person who, having assumed the duty by written contract, by receipt of payment for care, or by order of a court to provide for the support of an elder or a disabled adult, and having been entrusted with the property of that elder or disabled adult, with intent to defraud, appropriates such property to a use or purpose not in the due and lawful execution of that person's trust, is guilty of theft by exploitation. Theft by exploitation is punishable as theft pursuant to chapter 22-30A.

Source: SL 1986, ch 186, § 3; SL 1989, ch 30, § 53; SL 2005, ch 120, § 342; SL 2007, ch 147, § 4.