2011 South Dakota Code
Title 10 TAXATION
Chapter 52A. Municipal Gross Receipts Tax
§10-52A-15 Legislative findings--Limitations on reduction of tax levy.

10-52A-15. Legislative findings--Limitations on reduction of tax levy. The Legislature hereby finds that the amendments to chapter 10-52 contained in chapter 68 of the 2002 Session Laws shall result in a broader and more uniform tax base for the tax levied by municipalities under this chapter, and that, absent a reduction in the current tax levy of a municipality, it is anticipated that total tax revenues of a municipality may increase as a result of these amendments. However, so long as a municipality has any bonds or other obligations outstanding which are secured directly or indirectly by the pledge or collection and application of taxes levied pursuant to § 10-52-8 as in effect immediately prior to July 1, 2002, no municipality may reduce its tax levy under this chapter to a rate which, in the exercise of the sound discretion of the governing body, would be expected to produce less total revenue than was collected in the immediately preceding year pursuant to the tax imposed under § 10-52-8.

Source: SL 2002, ch 68, § 17.