South Dakota Codified Laws 34-20G-29. Information required for issuance of registry identification cards–Fee
The department shall issue a registry identification card to a qualifying patient who submits the following, in accordance with rules promulgated by the department:
(1) A written certification issued by a practitioner within ninety days immediately preceding the date of an application;
Terms Used In South Dakota Codified Laws 34-20G-29
- Medical use: includes the acquisition, administration, cultivation, manufacture, delivery, harvest, possession, preparation, transfer, transportation, or use of cannabis or paraphernalia relating to the administration of cannabis to treat or alleviate a registered qualifying patient's debilitating medical condition or symptom associated with the patient's debilitating medical condition. See South Dakota Codified Laws 34-20G-1
- written: include typewriting and typewritten, printing and printed, except in the case of signatures, and where the words are used by way of contrast to typewriting and printing. See South Dakota Codified Laws 2-14-2
(2) The application or renewal fee;
(3) The name, address, and date of birth of the qualifying patient, except that if the applicant is homeless, no address is required;
(4) The name, address, and telephone number of the qualifying patient’s practitioner;
(5) The name, address, and date of birth of the designated caregiver, or designated caregivers, chosen by the qualifying patient;
(6) If more than one designated caregiver is designated at any given time, documentation demonstrating that a greater number of designated caregivers are needed due to the patient’s age or medical condition;
(7) The name of no more than two dispensaries that the qualifying patient designates, if any; and
(8) If the qualifying patient designates a designated caregiver, a designation as to whether the qualifying patient or designated caregiver will be allowed under state law to possess and cultivate cannabis plants for the qualifying patient’s medical use.
When a practitioner conducts a follow-up assessment with a patient, within sixty days of issuing the patient a written certification, and the purpose of the follow-up assessment is to assess the patient’s response to the use of medical cannabis and to determine whether to issue the patient a second written certification, the fee required under subdivision (2) is waived, if the patient reapplies for the second registry identification card. A patient may only receive one fee waiver under this section per calendar year.
Source: Initiated Measure No. 26, approved Nov. 3, 2020, eff. Jul. 1, 2021; SL 2023, ch 121, § 2.