There is hereby established, to serve as an agency of the state and to perform the functions conferred upon it in this chapter and chapter 38-8, the State Conservation Commission.

Source: SL 1937, ch 19, § 4; SDC 1939, § 4.1503; SL 1945, ch 13; SL 1949, ch 10; SL 1957, ch 4, § 2; SL 1968, ch 1, § 2.