2019 South Dakota Codified Laws
Title 6 - Local Government Generally
Chapter 01 - Acts and Records of Local Officers
§ 6-1-6 Expense of procuring information omitted from official report--Payment--Civil liability of officer and sureties.
6-1-6. Expense of procuring information omitted from official report--Payment--Civil liability of officer and sureties. The expense of procuring such required or requested information shall not exceed ten dollars per day and the necessary hotel and traveling expenses. The expenses incurred in procuring such information shall be paid to the state or political subdivision entitled to such report or information from whom such report or information is required at the first regular meeting of the governing body of such political subdivision. Such expense shall be paid from funds available for the payment of salaries or maintenance of the office of such delinquent officer. The officer of such political subdivision whose duty it is to furnish such report or information, and the sureties on his bond shall be liable for the costs and expenses incurred in obtaining such report or information to the political subdivision which has paid same and such subdivision may recover in a civil action against him and his sureties in any court having jurisdiction.
Source: SL 1891, ch 98, § 1; RPolC 1903, § 980; RC 1919, § 7064; SDC 1939, § 48.0702; SL 1945, ch 212, § 1.
