Section 34-26-13 - Unauthorized dissection of body as misdemeanor.
34-26-13. Unauthorized dissection of body as misdemeanor. 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.