Any criminal action for violation of any provision of this title or of any rule promulgated pursuant to this title shall be prosecuted by the attorney general of the state; or, at the attorney general's request and under the attorney general's direction, by the state's attorney of any county in which the employer has a place of business or the violator resides.

Source: SL 1936 (SS), ch 3 , § 17; SDC 1939, § 17.0841; SL 1993, ch 375 , § 25; SL 2008, ch 277 , § 56.