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2011 South Dakota Code
Title 16 COURTS AND JUDICIARY
Chapter 12C. Clerk Magistrates
§16-12C-14 Record of proceedings before clerk magistrate--Stenographic record--Costs--Appeal.
SD Codified L § 16-12C-14 (through 2011) What's This?
16-12C-14. Record of proceedings before clerk magistrate--Stenographic record--Costs--Appeal. Except in small claims proceedings, a verbatim record of all proceedings and evidence at trials before a clerk magistrate shall be maintained either by electrical devices or by stenographic means, as the magistrate may direct. However, if any party to the action requests stenographic reporting of the proceedings, the reporting shall be done stenographically. The requesting party in a civil matter shall pay the costs of reporting the proceedings. If no record is kept, the appeal, if appeal is authorized by law, shall be de novo in circuit court.
Source: SL 2003, ch 117, § 41.
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