Payment of costs may be enforced as a civil judgment against the defendant. Source: SDC 1939, § 34.3709; SL 1943, ch 129 ; SDCL, § 23-48-31; SL 1978, ch 178 , § 368; SL 1982, ch 186 , § 3.
However, the costs shall not include items of governmental expense such as juror's fees, bailiff's fees, salaries and expenses of special agents, and reporter's per diem
— under SENTENCE AND JUDGMENT.