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2012 South Dakota Codified Laws
Title 9 MUNICIPAL GOVERNMENT
Chapter 14. Municipal Officers And Employees
§9-14-42 Criminal background check of persons seeking employment with municipalities.
SD Codified L § 9-14-42 (through 2012) What's This?
9-14-42. Criminal background check of persons seeking employment with municipalities. Each person over eighteen years of age seeking employment with a municipality shall submit, subject to the discretion of the municipality, to a state and federal criminal background investigation by means of fingerprint checks by the South Dakota Division of Criminal Investigation and the Federal Bureau of Investigation. The municipality may submit completed fingerprint cards to the Division of Criminal Investigation before the prospective new employee enters into service. Upon completion of the state and federal criminal background check, the Division of Criminal Investigation shall forward to the municipality all information obtained as a result of the check. Failure to submit or cooperate with the criminal background investigation is grounds for denial of an application.
Source: SL 2009, ch 36, § 1.
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