S.D. Codified Laws § 23-3-19.1

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State Forensic Laboratory created--Assignment to criminal investigation division--Employees

Official statutory text

There is created in the Office of the Attorney General a State Forensic Laboratory. The attorney general may assign the State Forensic Laboratory to the Division of Criminal Investigation. The employees of the laboratory serve at the will of the attorney general, except those employees who are agents of the Division of Criminal Investigation.

Source: SL 1979, ch 158, §§ 1, 2, 4; SL 1985, ch 188, § 1.

Status: in_force · Read it on the official government site

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