South Dakota § 34-20-2 - Schedule A--Highly toxic poisons enumerated.

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§ 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 preparations or derivatives, and all other poisonous vegetable alkaloids and their salts;

(4)    Strophanthus or its preparations, cocculus indicus, chloral hydrate, veronal, and other urea derivatives;

(5)    Creosote, cresols, and their preparations, tartar emetic, carbolic acid (phenol), containing more than ten percent of said acid, nitric acid, and sulphuric acid except in solutions containing ten percent or less of such acids;

(6)    Yellow phosphorus and its poisonous preparations; and

(7)    Other poisonous drugs and medicines fatal to human life in doses of fifteen grains or less.

Source: SL 1893, ch 132; SL 1897, ch 103, § 2; RPolC 1903, § 280; RC 1919, § 7844; SL 1929, ch 124, § 1; SL 1935, ch 114, § 1; SDC 1939, § 22.1201.

Source: official South Dakota text · Last verified 2026-08-27

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