34-26-15. Burial within reasonable time required.
Except in the cases in which the right to dissect a dead body is expressly conferred by law, every dead body of a human being lying within this state must be decently buried within a reasonable time after the death. Nothing herein shall affect the right to remove from or carry through this state, a dead human body or parts thereof for the purpose of burying the same in another place.
Source: PenC 1877, §§349, 350; CL 1887, §§6550, 6551; RPenC 1903, §§354, 355; RC 1919, §§3868, 3869; SDC 1939, §27.1301.