Title 3 — PUBLIC OFFICERS AND EMPLOYEES
37 chapters · 1,057 sections in this title.
SDCL § 3-9-1.1 Mileage reimbursement--Private vehicle on state business--Available state vehicle--Approval--Exceptions
1.0K chars
If an Office of Fleet and Travel Management or a Department of Transportation pool motor vehicle is available within ten miles of an individual's place of residence or headquarters station, but the individual uses a privately owned vehicle instead for state business, the mileage …
SDCL § 3-9-1.2 Mileage reimbursement--Designated city area
0.5K chars
Upon written request of the head of a state agency or institution, the state auditor may reimburse a person using a motor vehicle on state business for mileage within a designated city area if the required travel is not compensated through the person’s salary. For the purposes of…
SDCL § 3-9-10 Claims for household moving allowance--State transfer or hire--Application form
0.5K chars
Each officer or employee who may be entitled to an allowance under § 3-9-9 or 3-9-12 shall submit a claim voucher to the state auditor with an application for payment of the household moving allowance and a copy of the offer letter of the department, institution, board, commissio…
SDCL § 3-9-11 Travel and moving expenses--Promulgate rules--Prior approval required
0.1K chars
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
SDCL § 3-9-12 Household moving allowance--State hiring--Eligibility and amount
0.5K chars
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…
SDCL § 3-9-13 Travel advances authorized
0.2K chars
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.
SDCL § 3-9-14 Advances from appropriated funds--Limitation
0.2K chars
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 §
SDCL § 3-9-15 Itemized statement of expenses--Repayment of excess--Crediting of repayments
0.2K chars
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 §
SDCL § 3-9-16 Immediate accounting on termination of state employment
0.2K chars
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.
SDCL § 3-9-17 Withholding from payments to employee not accounting for travel advance
0.2K chars
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 §
SDCL § 3-9-18 All amounts repaid pursuant to this section shall be credited back to the budget units' appropriated funds
0.3K chars
However, general fund advances, or any portion thereof, which transcend a fiscal year revert to the general fund and become an obligation of the following fiscal year's appropriations. Source: SL 1974, ch 45 , § 3; SL 1975, ch 37 , § 2; SL 1984, ch 30 , § 81.
SDCL § 3-9-19 Bank cards for employees--Annual fees--Rules
0.6K chars
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…
SDCL § 3-9-2.1 Meals and lodging actual cost reimbursement regardless of whether away from residence or headquarters
1.1K chars
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…
SDCL § 3-9-2.2 Home station meal expense reimbursement regardless of whether away from residence or headquarters
0.9K chars
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…
SDCL § 3-9-2.3 Promulgation of rules regarding allowances for lodging, meals, and per diem
0.2K chars
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
SDCL § 3-9-2.4 Meals allowance--Uniformed highway patrol officers
0.2K chars
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.
SDCL § 3-9-20 Daily meal allowance--Wildland fire employees and fire suppression forces
0.4K chars
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…
SDCL § 3-9-3 Trip insurance on flights
0.2K chars
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.
SDCL § 3-9-4 Consent of responsible officer or department required for out - of - state travel
0.6K chars
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 …
SDCL § 3-9-5 Authorization of out-of-state travel--Members and officers of Legislature
0.6K chars
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…
SDCL § 3-9-5.1 Authorization of out-of-state travel--Department of Legislative Audit and Legislative Research Council
0.4K chars
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…
SDCL § 3-9-5.2 Authorization of out - of - state travel by employees delegated by Board of Regents
0.5K chars
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 …
SDCL § 3-9-6 Authorization of out-of-state travel--Governor’s authority to delegate--Signed record--Federal regulation
1.0K chars
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…
SDCL § 3-9-7 Expenses for political meetings not reimbursable--Rules for receipt of expenses for attending fairs and other public meetings
0.7K chars
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…
SDCL § 3-9-8 Accounting for reimbursable expenses--When receipts required
0.9K chars
No warrant shall be issued by the state auditor for the payment of any expense or expenses paid out by any department officer or employee of the state, until such department officer or employee shall have presented to the state auditor an itemized statement and account of such ex…
SDCL § 3-9-9 Household moving allowance--State transfers--Eligibility and amount
0.9K chars
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…