2016 South Dakota Codified Laws
Title 12 - ELECTIONS
Chapter 27 - Campaign Finance Requirements
§ 12-27-7 Limit on contributions to candidates for statewide office--Violation as misdemeanor.
12-27-7. Limit on contributions to candidates for statewide office--Violation as misdemeanor. No candidate for governor, or the candidate's campaign committee, may accept contributions from a person or political committee which in the aggregate from one source exceeds four thousand dollars during any calendar year, or contributions from a political party which in the aggregate from one source exceeds forty thousand dollars during any calendar year.
No candidate for attorney general or lieutenant governor, or the candidate's campaign committee, may accept contributions from a person or political committee which in the aggregate from one source exceeds two thousand dollars during any calendar year, or contributions from a political party which in the aggregate from one source exceeds twenty thousand dollars during any calendar year.
No candidate for secretary of state, state auditor, state treasurer, commissioner of school and public lands, or public utilities commissioner, or the candidate's campaign committee, may accept contributions from a person or political committee which in the aggregate from one source exceeds one thousand dollars during any calendar year, or contributions from a political party which in the aggregate from one source exceeds ten thousand dollars during any calendar year.
No candidate for statewide office may accept a contribution from a ballot question committee.
Funds received by a candidate or candidate's campaign committee by way of redemption of a democracy credit are considered a contribution from the person who assigned the democracy credit to the candidate.
The limitation on any contribution in this section does not apply to any contribution by the candidate to the candidate's campaign committee. A violation of this section is a Class 1 misdemeanor.
Source: SL 2007, ch 80, § 7; Initiated Measure 22, § 5, eff. Nov. 16, 2016.
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