34-26-13. Unauthorized dissection of body as misdemeanor.
Every person who makes or procures to be made any dissection of the body of a human being, except by authority of law or in pursuance of a permission given by the decedent, is guilty of a Class 1 misdemeanor.
Source: PenC 1877, §352; CL 1887, §6553; RPenC 1903, §357; RC 1919, §3871; SDC 1939, §13.1417; SL 1977, ch 190, §68.