Placing foreign substance in package to increase weight as misdemeanor.

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37-20-32. Placing foreign substance in package to increase weight as misdemeanor.

Every person who, in putting up in any bag, bale, box, barrel, or other package any hops, cotton, hay, or other goods usually sold in bags, bales, boxes, barrels, or packages, by weight, puts in or conceals therein anything whatever for the purpose of increasing the weight of such bag, bale, box, barrel, or package, is guilty of a Class 1 misdemeanor.

Source: SDC 1939, §63.9908; SL 1977, ch 190, §286.


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