22-1-6. Performance of required act by another.No person may be convicted for the failure to perform an act if the act has been performed by another person, acting on the other person's behalf, who is competent by law to perform it. Source: SDC 1939, §13.0106; SL 1976, ch 158, §1-4; SL 2005, ch 120, §360.
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