24-11-20. Failure to separate sexes as misdemeanor.
It is a Class 2 misdemeanor for any officer having charge of any jail to keep together in the same cell block male and female prisoners, except husband and wife.
Source: SDC 1939, §§13.4609, 13.4621; SL 1979, ch 150, §36; SL 1981, ch 195, §7.