Section 34-16-5 - Access of health officers to places where source of disease suspected.

34-16-5. Access of health officers to places where source of disease suspected. All members, officers, and employees of the state department and local boards of health shall have the right to enter any building, conveyance, or place where contagion, infection, filth, or other source or cause of preventable disease exists or is reasonably suspected to exist.

Source: SL 1913, ch 110; RC 1919, § 7683; SDC 1939, § 27.1807.