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SB 84 to authorize sheriffs to collect fees for...

State of South Dakota  
SEVENTY-THIRD SESSION
LEGISLATIVE ASSEMBLY,  1998
 

760B0416  
SENATE BILL   NO.     84  

        Introduced by: Senators Hunhoff, Halverson, and Hutmacher and Representatives Duniphan, Broderick, Chicoine, Moore, and Weber  

         FOR AN ACT ENTITLED, An Act to authorize sheriffs to collect fees for expenses incurred in executing court orders.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF SOUTH DAKOTA:
     Section  1.  That chapter 7-12 be amended by adding thereto a NEW SECTION to read as follows:
     Any sheriff may collect fees to recover reasonable expenses that are incurred as a result of executing an order of the court. The party who initiated the court action shall pay the fees and may pursue any available judicial remedy to recover such costs from the other parties involved in the action. The party who initiated the court action may appeal to the judge who issued the order for a reduction or waiver of all fees based upon ability to pay or reasonableness of expenses.


750 copies of this document were printed by the South Dakota
Legislative Research Council at a cost of $.016 per page.
  .   Insertions into existing statutes are indicated by underscores.
Deletions from existing statutes are indicated by overstrikes.