34-20-1. Label and warnings required for specified poisons–Contents of label. No person shall vend, sell, give away, or furnish, either directly or indirectly, any poison named in schedules A or B as set forth in §§34-20-2 and 34-20-3, unless the package, box, bottle, paper, or other container of such poison be labeled with the name […]
34-20-14. Sale of misbranded rodenticides and insecticides as misdemeanor–Statements constituting misbranding. It is a Class 2 misdemeanor for any person, firm, or corporation to sell, offer, expose, or keep in possession for sale or delivery in this state any mouse, rat, gopher, rodent, insect, or other poison or preparation intended for use in destroying the […]
34-20-15. Rodenticides and insecticides misbranded if not labeled as poison. Any mouse, rat, gopher, rodent, insect, or other poison or preparation intended for use in destroying the life of lower animals which is also poisonous to human beings shall be considered misbranded also if the label or package shall fail to bear the word, poison, […]
34-20-16. Federal rodent control program not impaired. Nothing in this chapter shall be construed to interfere with or prevent the preparation, sale and distribution of poisons, poisoned grains or baits by the district leader in rodent control for the United States Department of the Interior, Fish and Wildlife Service, when the same are intended for […]
34-20-2. Schedule A–Highly toxic poisons enumerated. The following is schedule A, referred to in §34-20-1: (1)Arsenic, lead arsenate, Paris green, and other poisonous compounds of arsenic; (2)Corrosive sublimate or preparations of the same and other poisonous compounds of mercury; (3)Prussic acid, potassium cyanide, oil of bitter almonds, aconite, belladonna, veratrum viride, strychnine, nux vomica, their […]
34-20-23. Intentional poisoning of food, drug, or water supply as felony. Every person who intentionally mingles any poison with any food, drink, or medicine with intent that the same shall be taken by any human being to his injury, and every person who intentionally poisons any spring, well, or reservoir of water, is guilty of […]
34-20-24. Laying out of poison in specified places as misdemeanor. Every person who shall lay out strychnine or other poison within the limits of any municipality, or within one mile of any dwelling house, or any barn, stable, or outbuilding used at the time for the keeping or shelter of horses, cattle, sheep, or swine, […]
34-20-25. Landowner permitted to lay out poison for rodents, magpies, and insects. Section 34-20-24 shall not apply to the laying out of poison for the control of ground squirrels, pocket gophers, mice, prairie dogs, rabbits, and other food, crop, and tree destroying rodents or magpies and insects by a landowner or a lessee on his […]
34-20-26. Federal program for rodent, magpie, and insect control unimpaired. Nothing in §34-20-24 shall be construed to prohibit or interfere with the Fish and Wildlife Service of the United States Department of the Interior from laying out poison for the control of ground squirrels, pocket gophers, mice, prairie dogs, rabbits, and other food, crop, and […]
34-20-27. County application for federal assistance in rodent control. Application for the services of the Fish and Wildlife Service in the eradication of rodents enumerated in §34-20-26 shall be made by the board of county commissioners of the respective counties, which board shall advise in the naming of the persons selected to lay out such […]
34-20-28. State predatory animal control program unimpaired. Section 34-20-24 shall not apply to the laying out of poison by the Department of Game, Fish and Parks, its employees or agents or persons or forces cooperating with or under the direction of said department for the extermination of predatory animals. Source: SL 1921, ch 328; SL […]
34-20-3. Schedule B–Less toxic poisons enumerated. The following is schedule B referred to in §34-20-1: (1)Carbolic acid in solutions containing ten percent or less; (2)Hydrochloric or muriatic acid, except in solutions containing ten percent or less; (3)Oxalic acid, chloroform, ether, santonine, cantharides, iodine, or its tinctures; (4)Sulphate of zinc, sulphate of copper, carbonate of copper; […]
34-20-4. Poison register for schedule A poisons–Contents of entries. No person shall furnish any poison named in schedule A to any person unknown to him, unless identified by one known to the seller, and unless he shall record in a well-bound book known as a poison register in the following form: Date of Sale Name […]
34-20-5. Sales entered in poison register–Understanding of poisonous nature–Purpose of use–Sales to minors restricted. No poison shall be delivered to any person until such person shall have entered his name in the seller’s poison register, and until the seller shall have satisfied himself that the purchaser understands the poisonous nature of the article and that […]
34-20-6. Prescription sales exempt from labeling and registration requirements. The provisions of §§34-20-1 to 34-20-5, inclusive, as to labeling and registration of sales of poisons shall not apply to the sale of such by registered pharmacists upon the prescriptions of duly licensed, practicing physicians, dentists, or veterinary surgeons. Source: SL 1929, ch 124, §2; SDC […]
