SDCL § 35-9-2.3: Purchase of beverage by adult for person under twenty-one as misdemeanor.

Except as provided in §§ 35-9-1 and 35-9-1.1, it is a Class 1 misdemeanor for any person twenty-one years of age or older to purchase or otherwise acquire alcoholic beverages from a retail establishment and to give or resell the alcoholic beverages to any person under the age of twenty-one years.