There is a newer version of the South Dakota Codified Laws
2011 South Dakota Code
Title 12 ELECTIONS
Chapter 27. Campaign Finance Requirements
§12-27-18 Contributions by organizations to candidate committee or political party prohibited--Contributions to ballot question committee permitted--Violation as misdemeanor.
SD Codified L § 12-27-18 (through 2011) What's This?
12-27-18. Contributions by organizations to candidate committee or political party prohibited--Contributions to ballot question committee permitted--Violation as misdemeanor. No organization may make a contribution to a candidate committee or political party. An organization may make a contribution to a ballot question committee organized solely for the purpose of influencing an election on a ballot question and independent expenditures regarding the placement of a ballot question on the ballot or the adoption or defeat of a ballot question. Any organization making expenditures, equal to or exceeding fifty percent of the organization's annual gross income, for the adoption or defeat of a ballot measure is a ballot question committee. An organization may create a political action committee. A violation of this section is a Class 1 misdemeanor.
Source: SL 2007, ch 80, § 18; SL 2009, ch 65, § 1; SL 2010, ch 76, § 8, eff. Mar. 25, 2010; SL 2011, ch 83, § 2.
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