2021 South Dakota Codified Laws
Title 12 - Elections
Chapter 27 - Campaign Finance Requirements
Section 12-27-18 - Independent communication expenditures--Violation as misdemeanor.
12-27-18. Independent communication expenditures--Violation as misdemeanor.
An entity may make independent communication expenditures regarding the placement of one or more ballot questions on the ballot or the adoption or defeat of one or more ballot questions. Any entity making expenditures, equal to or exceeding fifty percent of the entity's annual gross income, for the adoption or defeat of one or more ballot measures is a ballot question committee. A violation of this section is a Class 2 misdemeanor. A subsequent offense within a calendar year is a Class 1 misdemeanor.
Source: SL 2007, ch 80, §18; SL 2009, ch 65, §1; SL 2010, ch 76, §8, eff. Mar. 25, 2010; SL 2011, ch 83, §2; SL 2017, ch 71, §18; SL 2018, ch 83, §2; SL 2018, ch 85, §5.
