Use of salt to attract big game prohibited

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SD Code › Title 41 › Chapter 8 › Section 41-8-16

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No person may place any salt or salt lick or construct, occupy, or use any screen, blind, or scaffold, or other device at or near any salt or salt lick for the purpose of enticing or baiting big game animals to the same for the purpose of hunting, watching for, or killing of big game. A violation of this section is a Class 2 misdemeanor.

Source: SDC 1939, § 25.0702; SL 1943, ch 96; SL 1967, ch 89, § 2; SL 1991, ch 337, § 46.

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