FOR AN ACT ENTITLED, An Act to revise certain statutes regarding who may administer oaths.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF SOUTH DAKOTA:
     Section  1.  That § 18-3-1 be amended to read as follows:
     18-3-1.   The following officers are authorized to administer oaths:

             (1)      Supreme Court justices, circuit judges, magistrates, notaries public, and the clerk and deputy clerk of the Supreme Court, and clerks and deputy clerks of the circuit court, within the state, and federal judges and federal magistrates;

             (2)      Members of the Legislature, while acting as a member of any committee thereof, while examining persons before such committee;

             (3)      The clerk of courts, the county auditor, the county treasurer, the register of deeds, and the deputy of each, within the their respective county;

             (4)      Mayors, city auditors, deputy city auditors, town and township clerks, within their respective municipalities, and townships;

             (5)      Sheriffs and deputies in cases where they are if authorized by law to select commissioners or appraisers, or to impanel juries for the view or appraisement of

property, or are directed as an official duty to have property appraised, or take the answer of garnishees;

             (6)      Conservation officers for the purposes of taking a written statement pursuant to §  23A-2-1 for any offense of Title 41; and

             (7)      Other officers in cases specifically provided by law.