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2011 South Dakota Code
Title 24 PENAL INSTITUTIONS, PROBATION AND PAROLE
Chapter 07. State Prison Industries
§24-7-18 Authority of attorney general--Deceased debtor--Compromise--Approval of secretary.
SD Codified L § 24-7-18 (through 2011) What's This?
24-7-18. Authority of attorney general--Deceased debtor--Compromise--Approval of secretary. In the collection of past-due accounts of the prison industries, the attorney general may institute probate proceedings as a creditor of any deceased person or institute other court actions to collect the past-due account, enter into any stipulation or agreement to compromise or settle the past-due account, whether paid in full or not, if, in the attorney general's judgment, it is for the best interests of the state to do so, and make any such settlement or compromise and execute any release, partial release, discharge, satisfaction, or partial satisfaction of any lien if necessary to the settlement of the account. However, before making such settlement, the attorney general shall secure the approval of the secretary of corrections to the settlement.
Source: SDC 1939, § 13.4802 as added by SL 1941, ch 48, § 1; SL 1947, ch 265, § 5; SDC Supp 1960, § 13.47A05; SL 1989, ch 20, § 136; SL 2004, ch 168, § 31.
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