Exposure of self or others to communicable disease as misdemeanor

Each person who intentionally exposes himself or herself or another person infected with any communicable disease in any public place, except in the person's necessary removal from a public place in a manner not dangerous to the public health, is guilty of a Class 2 misdemeanor. Source: PenC 1877, § 470; CL 1887, § 6671; RPenC 1903, § 485; RC 1919, § 3994; SDC 1939, § 13.1505; SL 1977, ch 190 , § 58; SL 2015, ch 181 , § 4.