There is a newer version of the South Dakota Codified Laws
2011 South Dakota Code
Title 7 COUNTIES
Chapter 12. Sheriff
§7-12-6 Deputy sheriff to act on disqualification or incapacity of sheriff--Coroner to serve papers on sheriff.
SD Codified L § 7-12-6 (through 2011) What's This?
7-12-6. Deputy sheriff to act on disqualification or incapacity of sheriff--Coroner to serve papers on sheriff. When the sheriff is sued, the coroner shall serve the papers on him, and his return on all papers served by him shall have the same credit as the sheriff's return, and he shall receive the same fees as the sheriff for like services.
When the sheriff is disqualified or incapacitated, a deputy sheriff shall exercise the powers and duties of the office of sheriff so far as such disqualification or incapacity of the sheriff involved same.
Source: SL 1874-5, ch 27, § 88; PolC 1877, ch 21, § 67; CL 1887, § 663; RPolC 1903, § 898; RC 1919, § 5968; SDC 1939, § 12.1101; SL 1968, ch 16, § 3.
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