Title 3, PUBLIC OFFICERS AND EMPLOYEES

The Bureau of Finance and Management, at the direction and under the control of the Governor, shall develop, maintain, and administer a central payroll system for the efficient compensation payment of officials and employees of the State of South Dakota. The commissioner of the B…

It shall be lawful for the disbursing officers of the state or any of its political subdivisions to pay, or cause to be paid, any lawful claim for salaries, wages, compensation, fees, and expenses due from the state or any of its political subdivisions to any deceased employee th…

The disbursing officers shall be authorized to issue and pay such claim by the issuance of a warrant upon presentation to, and filing with the disbursing officers of the state or any of its political subdivisions of a verified claim, executed by such surviving spouse or circuit c…

In lieu of actual transportation expenses, the State Board of Finance may fix the maximum mileage reimbursement rate for using a privately owned motor vehicle on state business. Except as otherwise provided in this section and § 3-9-1.1 , the maximum mileage reimbursement rate is…

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 …

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…

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…

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…

The governing bodies of counties, municipalities, political subdivisions, public districts, and other public agencies or subdivisions of the State of South Dakota are hereby authorized to provide for the purchase of United States savings bonds or similar United States obligations…

If a request for a salary or wage deduction is made by an officer or employee who is a married person his signature is a sufficient authorization and if the request is made by a minor the signature of the minor is a sufficient authorization for the making of a deduction pursuant …

All auditors, treasurers, and other disbursing officers are authorized to recognize and act upon such requests for salary or wage deductions and to establish special accounts for each such officer or employee so that sufficient funds may be accumulated to the credit of such offic…

The state and its political subdivisions and their employees may participate in tax - sheltered annuities or accounts, or both. The employees may authorize their employer to withhold a designated amount from their salary for a retirement annuity or accounts, or both, purchased fo…

When so authorized by an employee, it shall be the duty of the employer to withhold the amount designated from the salary of the employee and to purchase a retirement annuity from a company or organization licensed to do business in the State of South Dakota, for such employee an…

The state and its political subdivisions, and the employees thereof, are authorized to purchase individual life insurance contracts to guarantee such retirement annuity and the employer is hereby authorized to withhold payment from the salary of employees to cover the cost of suc…

When a public employee has a tax - sheltered annuity prior to employment by the state or a political subdivision of the state, such employee shall have the privilege of transferring the periodic payments on such an annuity to the current employer. Source: SL 1963, ch 329 .

The state, subject to the approval of the Bureau of Finance and Management, and Board of Regents, and, municipal corporations and other political subdivisions, subject to the approval of their governing boards, may authorize payroll deductions and withholding from wages of their …

In order to extend to the officers and employees of the State of South Dakota and its political subdivisions and to the dependents and survivors of such officers and employees the basic protection accorded to others by the federal old age and survivors insurance system embodied i…

Each state institution which has bookstores, cafeterias, and other auxiliary activities, shall at a time and manner as the administrator may require, report to the administrator, the amount of contributions due upon the wages paid to employees of such bookstores, cafeterias, and …

Every political subdivision included in the agreement pursuant to the provisions of this chapter shall be liable for the contributions required of an employer under the provisions of section 3111 of the Internal Revenue Code. Source: SL 1951, ch 100 , § 11; SDC Supp 1960, § 17.12…

All counties in this state and the officers thereof shall provide sufficient funds to comply with this chapter either in their annual budget or by supplemental budget as provided by law. Source: SL 1951, ch 100 , § 8; SDC Supp 1960, § 17.1207; SL 1963, ch 127 , § 2; SL 1985, ch 1…

County auditors shall certify to the administrator all school districts subject to the federal old age and survivors insurance system tax as of the first day of September of each year and shall submit such certification to the administrator on or before the fifteenth day of Septe…

The auditor, clerk, or other proper officer of all qualifying political subdivisions shall issue warrants upon the funds in their respective treasuries, not otherwise appropriated, for such amount as may be required to pay the employer's tax upon the wages and salaries of its emp…

The political subdivision shall make such reports, in such form and containing such information as the administrator may from time to time require and comply with such provisions as the administrator or the secretary of Health and Human Services may from time to time find necessa…