Willful failure to perform official duty as misdemeanor.

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3-16-1. Willful failure to perform official duty as misdemeanor.

Where any duty is or shall be enjoined by law upon any public officer, or upon any person holding any public trust or employment, every intentional omission to perform such duty, where no special provision shall have been made for the punishment of such delinquency, is a Class 2 misdemeanor.

Source: PenC 1877, §216; CL 1887, §6416; RPenC 1903, §220; RC 1919, §3806; SDC 1939, §13.1301; SL 1980, ch 24, §44.


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