Title 3, PUBLIC OFFICERS AND EMPLOYEES

The State Board of Finance shall promulgate rules pursuant to chapter 1-26 necessary to implement the provisions of §§ 3-9-9 , 3-9-10 , and 3-9-12 . The State Board of Finance shall require that a request for a moving allowance, including reimbursement of travel expenses, be subm…

For the purpose of assisting in the recruitment of new state employees, a person being recruited, if the person is not a current state employee, may receive a household moving allowance for moving greater than fifty miles to the person's headquarter duty station in the same manne…

All budget units of the state are authorized to advance moneys to their officers and employees for authorized travel expenses. Source: SL 1974, ch 45 , § 1.

Such advances shall be made from appropriated funds of the budget units in the manner provided for under the rules and regulations promulgated pursuant to § 3-9-18 . No advance shall exceed an amount set forth and under the conditions specified in the rules and regulations promul…

Each person receiving a travel advance shall submit an itemized statement meeting the requirements of §§ 3-9-8 , 4-9-4 , and the rules promulgated pursuant to § 3-9-18 . If the advance exceeds the actual expenses, the difference shall be repaid as set forth and under the conditio…

If a person's position with the state is terminated the repayment or statement required by § 3-9-15 shall become due immediately. Source: SL 1974, ch 45 , § 4.

The state auditor or the business manager of a state institution not on central payroll is authorized to withhold an amount not to exceed the total amount of travel expense advanced from any moneys due a person who fails to comply with § 3-9-15 or § 3-9-16 . Source: SL 1974, ch 4…

The commissioner of the Bureau of Finance and Management is authorized to pass rules in compliance with chapter 1-26 to effectuate §§ 3-9-13 to 3-9-17 , inclusive. Source: SL 1974, ch 45 , § 6.

Any budget unit of the state may recommend that an employee be issued a bank card. If the employee is issued a bank card by an issuing authority, the budget unit recommending the issuance shall be responsible for any annual fee for the bank card. No bank card may be issued unless…

The State Board of Finance may fix the maximum amount that may be allowed per day or fraction of a day as reimbursement for meal and lodging expenses necessarily incurred by state officers and employees in the performance of their duties while away from their places of residence …

The State Board of Finance may authorize reimbursement of the actual costs of lodging and meals, excluding any alcoholic beverage as defined in subdivision 35-1-1(1), but including a gratuity incurred by a state officer or employee in the performance of his or her duties, regardl…

The State Board of Finance may authorize a meal expense reimbursement at the per diem rate to any agency, state officer, or employee conducting state business at an event extending entirely through a meal time without interruption, regardless of whether the attending officer or e…

The State Board of Finance may promulgate rules, pursuant to chapter 1-26 , to establish amounts that may be allowed for lodging, meals, and per diem pursuant to the provisions of §§ 3-9-2 , 3-9-2.1 , and 3-9-2.2 . Source: SL 2017, ch 26 , § 2.

Notwithstanding §§ 3-9-2 to 3-9-2.2 , inclusive, the daily meal allowance of uniformed highway patrol officers when assigned to field duties is seventeen dollars per day. Source: SL 2024, ch 20 , § 5.

Notwithstanding §§ 3-9-2 to 3-9-2.2 , inclusive, the Department of Public Safety shall establish a maximum daily meal allowance for wildland fire employees and fire suppression forces authorized by §§ 34-35-20 , 41-20A-8 , 41-20A-10 , and 41-20A-12 , while performing duties on an…

Any division of state government may participate in the cost of insurance for any full - or part - time employee when they are performing duties while using aircraft as a means of travel. Source: SL 1957, ch 318 ; SDC Supp 1960, § 55.2705.

No state officer or employee shall incur any expense payable out of any appropriated funds or other agency funds for travel or other personal expense, including meals, lodging, transportation, or other miscellaneous expenses, except on official state business. Whenever any state …

Members of the Legislature, and officers of the Legislature who are not members, may incur traveling and personal expenditures outside the boundaries of this state by and with the consent of the speaker of the House of Representatives and the president pro tempore of the Senate w…

Officers and employees of the Department of Legislative Audit and the Legislative Research Council may incur traveling and personal expenditures outside the boundaries of this state by and with the written consent of the chair of the Executive Board of the Legislative Research Co…

The Board of Regents, under policy and procedures developed for such purpose, shall delegate to its executive director and to the head of each institution or other responsible officer, the authority to grant written consent to employees of each institution to incur traveling and …

The Governor may delegate to each responsible officer of any other agency, department, or institution the authority to grant consent for official travel outside this state. The Governor may establish general guidelines for travel outside the state. For each outside-the-state expe…

No state officer or employee who attends a political meeting, the state fair, the inaugural, or other public meeting of like character, shall be entitled to be reimbursed from state funds for travel expenses to such meetings unless the officer's or employee's duties necessarily r…

The state auditor may not issue a warrant for the payment of any expense paid out by any department officer or employee of the state until the department officer or employee has presented to the state auditor an itemized invoice and account of the expenses, the authenticity of wh…

A current full - time officer or employee, except an elected constitutional officer of the State of South Dakota, may receive a household moving allowance. The officer or employee is eligible for the allowance if the officer or employee is transferred by the department, instituti…