{"data":{"id":"us-sd/sdcl-20-9-11.6","jurisdiction":"us-sd","citation":"SDCL § 20-9-11.6","heading":"Person with possessory interest in land liable for injury to or death of certain known trespassers.","body":"A person with a possessory interest in land may be subject to liability for physical injury or death to a known trespasser if:\n(1) The trespasser was harmed as a result of the person's failure to carry on dangerous activities on the land with reasonable care for the trespasser's safety;\n(2) The trespasser was harmed as a result of the possessor's failure to exercise reasonable care to warn the trespasser about an artificial condition maintained by the person, the artificial condition involved a risk of death or serious bodily injury, and the artificial condition was of such a nature that the person had reason to believe the trespasser would not discover the artificial condition or realize the risk involved; or\n(3) The person knew or had reason to know that the trespasser was in dangerous proximity to a moving force in the person's immediate control just before the harm occurred, and the trespasser was harmed as a result of the person's failure to exercise reasonable care so as to prevent the force from harming the trespasser or failed to exercise reasonable care to provide a warning that was reasonably adequate to allow the trespasser to avoid the harm.","path":["TITLE 20. PERSONAL RIGHTS AND OBLIGATIONS","CHAPTER 20-9. LIABILITY FOR TORTS"],"source_url":"https://sdlegislature.gov/Statutes/20-9-11.6","current_through":"2026-08-31","vintage":"","retrieved_at":"2026-09-03T15:18:56Z","sha256":"f30b4b487f8077e4a20e7ec79be754b1f5a2d0248afa985fffb697171ac86247","source_id":"us-sd","stale":true,"prev":"us-sd/sdcl-20-9-11.5","next":"us-sd/sdcl-20-9-12"},"notice":"GroundRules: Original legal text. Not legal advice."}