Title 23 — LAW ENFORCEMENT

Public offenses may be prevented by the intervention of the officers of justice: (1) By requiring security to keep the peace; (2) By forming a police in municipalities, and by requiring their attendance in exposed places; (3) By suppressing riots. Source: SDC 1939 & Supp 1960, § …

Any person treating any bullet wound, gunshot wound, powder burn, or any other injury arising from or caused by the discharge of any firearm, shall report such treatment to the sheriff of the county in which the wound is treated. Source: SL 1967, ch 111 , § 1; SL 1978, ch 169 , §…

The report shall be made orally as soon as possible by any available means, to the sheriff of the county in which the wound is examined, dressed, or otherwise treated. Source: SL 1967, ch 111 , § 2; SL 1978, ch 169 , § 5.

Any person making a report pursuant to §§ 23-13-10 and 23-13-11 shall have immunity from any liability, civil or criminal, that might otherwise be incurred or imposed, and shall have the same immunity when participating in any judicial proceeding resulting from such report. Sourc…

Any confidential relation privilege set forth in subdivisions 19-19-503(b) and 19-19-504(b) may not be claimed in any judicial proceeding relating to a report concerning an injury from a firearm made pursuant to §§ 23-13-10 and

Any person described in § 23-13-10 who knowingly fails to make the reports required by §§ 23-13-10 and 23-13-11 is guilty of a Class 1 misdemeanor. Source: SL 1967, ch 111 , § 5; SL 1978, ch 169 , § 8. 23-13-15, 23-13-16. Repealed by SL 1978, ch 164 , §§ 1, 3 23-13-17. Repealed b…

When the officers of justice are authorized to act in the prevention of public offenses, other persons, who by their command act in their aid, are justified in so doing. Source: SDC 1939 & Supp 1960, § 34.0102. 23-13-3. Repealed by SL 1978, ch 185 , § 19

It shall be the duty of all sheriffs, police officers, town marshals, constables, and other peace officers and the state's attorneys in each county and the deputies or assistants of any of them to cooperate in the enforcement of all the provisions of chapter 22-25 . Source: SDC 1…

The attorney general shall have authority and it shall be his duty whenever any peace officer or state's attorney of any county has neglected the investigation and enforcement of chapter 22-25 , to make the investigations and complaints and conduct the prosecutions the same as th…

Any public official referred to in §§ 23-13-4 and 23-13-5 who has knowledge sufficient to put an ordinary person on inquiry as to existence of any forms of gambling nuisance prohibited by this code and who fails thereafter diligently to secure and prepare the available evidence a…

A prosecuting attorney may, whenever necessary in his investigations, have the testimony taken by him written out in questions and answers and filed with the papers in the case. Source: SDC 1939 & Supp 1960, § 34.1505; SL 1978, ch 169 , § 3. 23-13-8, 23-13-9. Repealed by SL 1978,…