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.