Title 3 — PUBLIC OFFICERS AND EMPLOYEES
37 chapters · 1,057 sections in this title.
SDCL § 3-5-1 Bonds of state officers and employees--Approval, recording, and safekeeping
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The bonds of all state officers, appointees of the Governor or employees of the state, required to give bonds, shall be given to the State of South Dakota, and shall be approved by the Governor as to sufficiency and by the attorney general as to form, except that the form of the …
SDCL § 3-5-11 Bonds and oaths to cover all duties of office--Noncomplying bonds valid as to matter contained
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The bonds and oaths of all civil officers shall be construed to cover duties required by law subsequent to giving them. No official bond shall be void for want of compliance with the statute, but it shall be valid in law for the matter contained therein. Source: PolC 1877, ch 5, …
SDCL § 3-5-12 New bond or restoration of bond becoming insufficient
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When any official bond running to the state or any county becomes insufficient for the purpose thereof, the approving authority shall require a new bond or additional surety or sureties, as shall be necessary to restore the bond to the full amount of liability required by law. So…
SDCL § 3-5-13 Bond found insufficient by county commissioners--Determination of sufficiency by circuit court
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In case the board of county commissioners should decide that a bond presented to it is insufficient, a reasonable time, not to exceed five days, shall be allowed the officer to supply a sufficient bond, and such board may take three days to consider the approval of any bond. If s…
SDCL § 3-5-2 Bonds of county officers--Approval and filing
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The bonds of all county officers shall be approved by the board of county commissioners, except bonds of the county commissioners, which shall be approved by the auditor, and shall, together with the oaths of office be filed in the office of the county auditor. Source: CL 1887, §…
SDCL § 3-5-3 Amount of bonds
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The bond of the state auditor shall be in the penal sum of ten thousand dollars, of the state treasurer in the penal sum of five hundred thousand dollars, of the secretary of state in the penal sum of five thousand dollars, of the commissioner of school and public lands in the pe…
SDCL § 3-5-4 Sureties on bonds
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Every official bond shall be given with at least two sureties, and the bond of the state treasurer shall have at least four sureties, and that of the county treasurer at least three sureties. In lieu of a bond with personal sureties a bond executed by a surety company legally aut…
SDCL § 3-5-5 Premiums on corporate surety bonds
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Whenever an officer, deputy, or employee of the State of South Dakota, or its subdivisions including counties, school districts, townships, municipal corporations, and all other governmental subdivisions and departments, in furnishing a bond required by law or rules or regulation…
SDCL § 3-5-6 Limitation of liability by surety
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Any surety on any official bond running to the state or any county, may limit his liability by inserting after his name the words "not to exceed" naming the amount to which he desires to limit his liability. Any surety may also limit its or his liability as to time by inserting i…
SDCL § 3-5-7 Reelected incumbent to account for funds and property before new bond approved
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When the incumbent of an office is reelected, his bond shall not be approved until he has produced and fully accounted for all public funds and property in his control under color of his office during the expiring term, to the person or authority to whom he should account, and th…
SDCL § 3-5-8 Endorsement of approval of bonds
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The approval of official bonds shall in all cases be endorsed upon the bond and signed by the officer approving, or by the chairman of the board of county commissioners. Source: PolC 1877, ch 5, § 8; CL 1887, § 1376; RPolC 1903, § 1793; RC 1919, § 7029; SDC 1939, § 48.0308.
SDCL § 3-5-9 Recording of bonds of county and precinct officers
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The bonds of all county and precinct officers immediately after the approval of the same, shall be recorded at length in the office of the register of deeds of the county to which such bonds are given, in a book to be provided and kept for that purpose. When such bonds are so rec…