Title 22 — CRIMES

Any person who gives, or agrees or offers to give, any gratuity or reward in consideration that that person or any other person be appointed to any public office, or be permitted to exercise, perform, or discharge the prerogatives or duties of any public office, is guilty of a Cl…

The public office of any public officer or employee who is convicted of violating any provision contained in this chapter is forfeit. Moreover, such public officer or employee is forever disqualified from holding any public office in this state. Source: SL 1976, ch 158 , § 12A-10…

Any person who: (1) Gives or offers to give a bribe to any judicial officer or juror or to any person who may be authorized by law to hear or determine any question or controversy, with intent to influence that person's vote, opinion, or decision upon any matter or question which…

Any person who attempts to influence a juror, or any person summoned or drawn as a juror, or chosen an arbitrator or appointed a referee, in respect to any verdict or decision in any cause or matter pending, or about to be brought before such person: (1) By means of any communica…

Any juror, or person drawn or summoned as a juror, or judicial officer, who makes any promise or agreement to give a verdict for or against any party is guilty of a Class 6 felony. Source: SL 1976, ch 158 , § 11-13 ; SDCL, § 22-11-18 ; SL 2005, ch 120 , § 217.

Any person who, as a witness or prospective witness in an official proceeding, knowingly solicits, accepts, or agrees to accept any benefit upon the representation or understanding that such person will do any thing described in subdivisions 22-11-19(1) to (4), inclusive, is guil…

Any person who, in any trial, proceeding, inquiry, or investigation authorized by law, offers in evidence as genuine, any book, paper, document, record, or other instrument in writing, knowing that it has been forged or fraudulently altered, is guilty of a Class 5 felony. Source:…

Any person who prepares any false book, paper, record, instrument in writing, or other matter or thing with intent to produce it or allow it to be produced as genuine in any trial, proceeding, inquiry, or investigation authorized by law, is guilty of a Class 6 felony. Source: SDC…

Any person who fraudulently alters the draft of any bill or resolution which has been presented to either house of the Legislature to be passed or adopted, with intent to procure it to be passed or adopted by either house, or certified by the presiding officer of either house, in…

Any person who fraudulently alters a bill which has been passed by the Legislature of this state, with intent to have it approved by the Governor, certified by the secretary of state, or printed or published by the printer of the statutes, in language different from that in which…

Any person who, directly or indirectly, asks or receives any consideration for appointing another person or procuring the employment of another person in any public office, or for permitting or agreeing to permit any other person to exercise any of the prerogatives or duties of a…

Any appointment or employment to a public office made contrary to § 22-12A-1 or 22-12A-2 is void. However, no official act performed prior to conviction of any offense prohibited by such sections is invalid. Source: SDC 1939, § 13.1110; SDCL, § 3-15-8; SL 1976, ch 158 , § 12A-3; …

Any person who gives, or offers to give, a bribe to any member of the Legislature, or attempts, directly or indirectly, by menace, deceit, suppression of truth, or any other corrupt means, to influence a member to give or to withhold the member's vote, or to not attend the legisl…

Any member of the Legislature who asks, receives, or agrees to receive any bribe upon any understanding that the member's official vote, opinion, judgment, or action be influenced thereby, or who is given any bribe in any manner upon any particular side of any question or matter …

Any person who gives or offers a bribe to a public officer or employee with intent to influence the officer or employee in respect to any act, decision, vote, opinion, or other proceeding for which the officer or employee is responsible, is guilty of a Class 4 felony. Source: SDC…

Any public officer or employee, who asks, receives, or agrees to receive a bribe upon an agreement or understanding that his or her vote, opinion, or action upon any matter then pending, or which may by law be brought before him or her in a public capacity, be influenced thereby,…

Any public officer or employee who asks or receives any fee or consideration for any official service which has not been rendered, except charges for prospective costs or fees demandable in advance, if allowed by law, or who asks or receives any emolument, gratuity, reward, or ot…

Any public officer or employee who asks or receives any emolument, gratuity, reward, or other consideration for omitting or deferring the performance of any official duty, is guilty of a Class 1 misdemeanor. Source: SDC 1939, § 13.1112; SDCL, § 3-15-10; SL 1976, ch 158 , § 12A-9.