Title 2 — LEGISLATURE AND STATUTES
17 chapters · 303 sections in this title.
SDCL § 2-12-5 Specific legislation to be shown in directory entries--Employment of unregistered lobbyists prohibited
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Any person employing any lobbyist shall, whenever further subjects of legislation are introduced or arise which such lobbyist is hired to promote or oppose, make or cause to be made additional entries opposite his name in the directory, stating such additional employment in such …
SDCL § 2-12-6 Contingent compensation employment prohibited
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No person may be employed as a lobbyist for a compensation dependent in any manner upon the passage or defeat of any proposed legislation or upon any other contingency connected with the action of the Legislature, or of either house thereof, or of any committee thereof. Source: S…
SDCL § 2-12-7 SDCL 2-12-7
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Repealed by SL 1977, ch 23 , § 17.
SDCL § 2-12-7.1 Employees of executive branch, a constitutional office, or the judicial system representatives required to register as public employee lobbyists--Budgetary testimony before appropriations committees excepted
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Any person employed in the executive branch of state government, a constitutional office, or the judicial system, who is not an elected official or who is not subject to confirmation by the senate, who is authorized to officially represent any department of the executive branch, …
SDCL § 2-12-8 Lobbyists not to go on floor except by invitation--Violation as petty offense
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No person, employed for a pecuniary consideration to act as a lobbyist as defined by this chapter, may go upon the floor of either house of the Legislature reserved for the members thereof while in session, except upon the invitation of that house. A violation of this section is …
SDCL § 2-12-8.1 Badges required of lobbyists within capitol complex--Fees--Composition--Petty offense
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Every lobbyist shall wear a badge which shall be visible at all times when engaged in lobbying within the capitol complex. The badge shall be provided by the secretary of state upon payment of fees and shall bear the word "lobbyist" and the identity of the principal on behalf of …
SDCL § 2-12-8.2 Officials and personnel prohibited from lobbying within two years after termination of service--Violation as misdemeanor
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No elected officer, department or agency head, or division director, or the highest paid employee reporting to such person may be compensated, act, or register as a lobbyist, other than a public employee lobbyist, during a period of two years after that person's termination of se…
SDCL § 2-12-9 Improper influence of legislation or legislators as misdemeanor
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Any person who threatens, harms, offers to make bribes of money or other inducements, offers or gives gifts or other types of consideration to any person for the purpose of obtaining sponsorship or introduction of legislation, influencing the form of legislation, attempting to in…
SDCL § 2-13-1 Advance copies to judicial officers of acts with emergency clause
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When an act, other than an act appropriating money only, which provides that it shall take effect prior to the first day of July following the adjournment of the Legislature, has been filed in the Office of the Secretary of State, he shall, without charge, within three days after…
SDCL § 2-13-12 Copies delivered to Supreme Court and Legislative Research Council--Exchange
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In addition to the distribution authorized by § 2-13-7 , the Bureau of Human Resources and Administration shall deliver to the Supreme Court and the director of the Legislative Research Council, upon proper requisition from time to time, copies of the session laws, which may be u…
SDCL § 2-13-16 Sale or disposal of session laws
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Session laws shall be sold at a price set to cover their printing and distribution costs plus ten percent. However, any session laws which have not been sold, within two years from the date of their delivery by the printer, may be sold at a price set by order of the commissioner …
SDCL § 2-13-2 Session law publication--Authorities indexed
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The director of the Legislative Research Council shall arrange for publication of the session laws. The session laws must include the laws and joint resolutions passed by each session of the Legislature, the rules of court, the executive orders adopted pursuant to the constitutio…
SDCL § 2-13-5 Labeling of session law bound volumes
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All permanent bound volumes of the session laws shall be labeled and well glued. Source: SDC 1939, § 55.0906; SL 1977, ch 24 , § 14; SL 2009, ch 18 , § 1.
SDCL § 2-13-6 SDCL 2-13-6
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Repealed by SL 1977, ch 24 , § 13.
SDCL § 2-13-7 Free distribution of session laws to state and federal agencies
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The Bureau of Human Resources and Administration shall distribute the printed session laws and shall deliver free copies of the session laws to such county, state, and federal officers and offices as are approved by the Code Commission. Source: SDC 1939 § 55.0907; SL 1963, ch 302…
SDCL § 2-13-7.1 SDCL 2-13-7.1
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Repealed by SL 1977, ch 24 , § 13.
SDCL § 2-13-8 SDCL 2-13-8
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Repealed by SL 1977, ch 24 , § 13.
SDCL § 2-13-9 Repealed by SL 1988, ch 24 , § 3
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2-13-10 , 2-13-11. Repealed by SL 1977, ch 24 , § 13.
SDCL § 2-14-1 Words used in ordinary sense
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Words used are to be understood in their ordinary sense except also that words defined or explained in § 2-14-2 are to be understood as thus defined or explained. Source: SDC 1939, § 65.0202 (7).
SDCL § 2-14-10 Source notes not a legislative expression
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Nothing contained in any source note shall be deemed as an expression by the Legislature as to the purpose, reason, scope, or effect of any section to which such source note relates. Source: SDC 1939, § 65.0202 (4).
SDCL § 2-14-11 Arrangement of laws in code
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Provisions contained in any title, part, or chapter of the code of laws enacted by § 2-16-13 may be construed and considered in the light of such arrangement and such position in any case where such arrangement or such position tends to show the intended purpose and effect thereo…
SDCL § 2-14-12 Statutes in derogation of common law--Liberal construction
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The rule of the common law that statutes in derogation thereof are to be strictly construed has no application to the code of laws enacted by §
SDCL § 2-14-13 Uniformity of interpretation of uniform laws
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Whenever a statute appears in the code of laws enacted by § 2-16-13 which, from its title, text, or source note, appears to be a uniform law, it shall be so interpreted and construed as to effectuate its general purpose to make uniform the law of those states which enact it. Sour…
SDCL § 2-14-14 Computation of time in statutes
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The time in which any act provided by law is to be done is computed by excluding the first day and including the last, unless the last is a holiday and then it also is excluded. Fractions of a day are to be disregarded in computations which include more than one day, and involve …
SDCL § 2-14-15 Majority exercising joint authority
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Words giving a joint authority to three or more public officers or other persons are construed as giving such authority to a majority of them unless it is otherwise expressed in the act giving the authority. Source: SDC 1939, § 65.0202 (12).
SDCL § 2-14-16 Effective date of legislative acts
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Subject to the provisions of the Constitution and statutes relating to vetoes and the referendum, an act of the Legislature which does not prescribe when it shall take effect, if passed at a regular session, takes effect on the first day of July after its passage and if passed at…
SDCL § 2-14-16.1 Two or more amendments of same section at same session--Reconciliation
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If two or more acts amending the same section of the code of laws enacted by § 2-16-13 are passed during a legislative session, each amendment shall be given effect, even if both acts have differing effective dates unless the amendments conflict or a contrary intent plainly appea…
SDCL § 2-14-16.2 Two or more initiated measures or constitutional amendments approved at same election--Reconciliation
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If two or more initiated measures or amendments to the Constitution are approved by the voters at the same election, each initiated measure or amendment shall be given effect, unless the initiated measures or amendments conflict or a contrary intent plainly appears. For purposes …
SDCL § 2-14-17 Effect of repeal of act legalizing prior act
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The repeal of any statute which legalized or made valid any act which was prior thereto shall not affect the legality or validity of such act which was legalized or validated by such statute. Source: SDC 1939, § 65.0202 (14).
SDCL § 2-14-18 Penalties and liabilities surviving repeal of act
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The repeal of any statute by the Legislature shall not have the effect to release or extinguish any penalty, forfeiture, or liability incurred under such statute unless the repealing act shall so expressly provide, and such statute shall be treated as still remaining in force for…
SDCL § 2-14-2.1 Definition of must and shall
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As used in the South Dakota Codified Laws to direct any action: (1) The term "must" manifests a mandatory directive and does not confer any discretion in carrying out the action so directed; and (2) The term "shall" manifests a mandatory directive and does not confer any discreti…
SDCL § 2-14-20 SDCL 2-14-20
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Omitted.
SDCL § 2-14-21 Code not retroactive
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No part of the code of laws enacted by § 2-16-13 shall be construed as retroactive unless such intention plainly appears. Source: SDC 1939, § 65.0202 (22).
SDCL § 2-14-22 SDCL 2-14-22
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Transferred to §
SDCL § 2-14-23 Repeal of acts prior to code--Saving clauses
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Except as otherwise expressly provided, all general statutes duly enacted prior to the code of laws enacted by § 2-16-13 and not previously repealed are repealed and superseded by the provisions of the code of laws enacted by § 2-16-13 , but such repeal shall not in any case affe…
SDCL § 2-14-24 Actions pending and rights accrued before code
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No action or proceeding, civil or criminal, commenced before the code of laws enacted by § 2-16-13 took effect and no right accrued are affected by its provisions, but the proceedings thereunder must conform to the requirements of such code as far as applicable. Source: SDC 1939,…
SDCL § 2-14-25 Limitation periods beginning before code
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When a limitation or period of time prescribed in any existing statute for acquiring a right or barring a remedy or for any other purpose had begun to run before the code of laws enacted by § 2-16-13 took effect and the same or any limitation was prescribed in such code, the time…
SDCL § 2-14-26 Corporations organized before code
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Nothing in the code of laws enacted by § 2-16-13 shall be so construed as to affect the incorporation of any public or private corporation lawfully incorporated when the code took effect, but such corporation is subject to the provisions thereof applicable thereto. Source: SDC 19…
SDCL § 2-14-27 Rights vested and obligations existing before code
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Nothing in the code of laws enacted by § 2-16-13 shall be so construed as to impair any vested right or valid obligation existing when it took effect. Source: SDC 1939, § 65.0202 (19).
SDCL § 2-14-28 Public officers in office before code
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Except where a different intention plainly appears, the public officers in office when the code of laws enacted by § 2-16-13 took effect continue in office until the expiration of the term for which they were elected or appointed unless sooner removed as provided by law. Source: …
SDCL § 2-14-29 Subdivision boundaries existing before code
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The boundaries of every county, municipality, school district, and other local subdivision continue as established when the code of laws enacted by § 2-16-13 took effect until changed in the manner provided therein. Source: SDC 1939, § 65.0202 (21); SL 1992, ch 60 , § 2.
SDCL § 2-14-3 Printing not sufficient to seal note
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Notwithstanding the provisions of subdivision 2-14-2(23) a promissory note shall in no case be deemed or considered a sealed instrument where the word "seal" is printed thereon. Source: SL 1943, ch 316 ; SDC Supp 1960, § 65.0201-1. Effective July 1, 2026
SDCL § 2-14-30 Ordinances and regulations adopted before code
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Every ordinance, bylaw, rule, and regulation adopted by any municipality, civil township, court, board, commission, or public officer, not inconsistent with the provisions of the code of laws enacted by § 2-16-13 , in force when it took effect continues in force until repealed or…
SDCL § 2-14-31 Transfer of proceedings pending at time of code
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If when the code of laws enacted by § 2-16-13 took effect any action or proceeding, properly commenced, was pending before any court, tribunal, board, commission, or public officer, of which such court, tribunal, board, commission, or public officer does not have jurisdiction und…
SDCL § 2-14-32 Chapter applied to Codified Laws and code
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Except as provided in §§ 2-16-14 to 2-16-16 , the provisions of this chapter apply to the South Dakota Codified Laws and the code of laws enacted by §
SDCL § 2-14-33 Sex-based definitions--Statewide applicability
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The definitions of "boy," "father," "female," "girl," "male," "man," "mother," "sex," and "woman," as set forth in § 2-14-2 , apply uniformly throughout all administrative rules, contracts, guidance documents, policies, practices, and statutes of the state and each political subd…
SDCL § 2-14-34 Sex-based definitions--State agency compliance
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Each state agency, department, board, commission, institution, political subdivision, and any other entity exercising state authority shall, in the execution of applicable duties, strictly adhere to the definitions of "boy," "father," "female," "girl," "male," "man," "mother," "s…
SDCL § 2-14-4 Application of statutory definitions
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Whenever the meaning of a word or phrase is defined in any statute such definition is applicable to the same word or phrase wherever it occurs except where a contrary intention plainly appears. Source: SDC 1939, § 65.0202 (8).
SDCL § 2-14-5 Gender of words
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Words used in the masculine gender include the feminine and neuter. Words used in the feminine gender include the masculine and neuter. Source: SDC 1939, § 65.0202 (9); SL 1980, ch 23 , § 20.
SDCL § 2-14-6 Singular and plural words
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Words used in the singular number include the plural, and the plural, the singular, except where a contrary intention plainly appears. Source: SDC 1939, § 65.0202 (10).