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.
Unauthorized dissection of body as misdemeanor
SDCL § 34-26-13 — under CUSTODY AND DISPOSITION OF BODIES AND BODY PARTS.
SDCL § 34-26-13