This chapter may be cited as the “Petroleum Inspection and Release Compensation Act.”

Terms Used In South Dakota Codified Laws 34A-13-39

  • Release: is a ny unintentional spilling, leaking, emitting, discharging, escaping, leaching, or disposing of petroleum from a tank into the environment occurring in South Dakota, but does not include discharges or designed venting allowed under adopted rules or under federal or state law or discharges arising out of war, invasion, act of a foreign enemy, hostilities, revolution, earthquake, flood, or other catastrophic disaster occurring due to nature. See South Dakota Codified Laws 34A-13-1

Source: SL 1988, ch 290, § 39.