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SOUTH DAKOTA

32-12A-7.1 - Registration with Selective Service as condition for obtaining certain licenses,
Department to forward personal information to Selective Service--Application deemed consent to register with Selective Service. No male United States citizen or immigrant who is at least eighteen years of age but less than twenty-six years of age and who is required to register with the United States Selective Service System may apply for or be issued a commercial driver license, renewal, or duplicate pursuant to this chapter unless the applicant is registered, or consents to be registered as provided in this section, in compliance with the Military Selective Service Act, 50 U.S.C. App. 453, as amended to January 1, 2002.

The Department of Public Safety shall forward in an electronic format the necessary personal information required for registration of any applicant identified in this section to the United States Selective Service System. The applicant's submission of the application indicates that the applicant has already registered with the Selective Service System or that he is authorizing the department to forward to the Selective Service System the necessary information for such registration. The department shall notify the applicant on the application that his submission of the application serves as his consent to be registered with the Selective Service System if so required by federal law.

13-53-1.1 – Draft registration compliance as prerequisite to enrollment
Statement of registration compliance. No male person born after December 31, 1959, may enroll at any state-supported college or university until such person has filed with the institution a statement of registration compliance. In such a statement of registration compliance, the person shall certify, under oath, either that he is registered with the selective service pursuant to the Military Selective Service Act, 50 U.S.C. § 453, as amended and in effect on January 1, 1988, or that, for any reason specified in 50 U.S.C. § 453, he is not required to be registered.

No person who is required by the Military Selective Service Act, 50 U.S.C. § 453, as amended and in effect on January 1, 1988, to register with the selective service system and who has not done so, may be hired by the state or a county, township, municipality, school district, or any other governmental unit or department in any capacity.