43-40-3. Guest's receipt for property delivered for safekeeping.It shall be the duty of every guest and of everyone intending to be a guest of any hotel in this state, upon delivering to the proprietor of such hotel, or to his servants, any baggage or other articles of property of such guest for safekeeping, elsewhere than to the room assigned to such guest, to demand, and of such hotel proprietor to give, a check or receipt therefor in such case, to evidence the fact of such delivery. Source: SL 1913, ch 237, §3; RC 1919, §1000; SDC 1939, §60.0703.
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