Section 41-15-17 - Search warrant for contraband bird, animal, fish, or skin--Execution of warrant. - South Dakota Statutes

41-15-17. Search warrant for contraband bird, animal, fish, or skin--Execution of warrant. Any court having jurisdiction may, on complaint showing probable cause for believing that any bird, animal, fish, or skin of fur-bearing animals or any part of any such bird, animal, fish, or skin, caught, taken, killed, possessed, or controlled by any person, or shipped or transported by any person, contrary to law is concealed or illegally kept in any building, motor vehicle, or receptacle, issue a search warrant and cause a search to be made in any such place for any such bird, animal, fish, or skin, or any part of any such bird, animal, fish, or skin. The court may cause any building, enclosure, or motor vehicle to be entered, and any compartment, chest, box, locker, crate, basket, package, or other receptacle to be opened and the contents examined.

Source: SDC 1939, § 25.0422; SL 1963, ch 135, § 2; SL 1967, ch 85, § 8; SL 1969, ch 100; SL 2009, ch 206, § 90.