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SB 2 revise the distribution of the revenue from the alcoholic beverag...
State of South Dakota  
NINETY-FIRST SESSION
LEGISLATIVE ASSEMBLY, 2016  

861X0053   SENATE LOCAL GOVERNMENT ENGROSSED    NO.  SB 2 -  01/20/2016  

Introduced by:    Senators Ewing, Haggar (Jenna), Peterson (Jim), and Vehle and Representatives Heinemann (Leslie), Conzet, Duvall, Feickert, Klumb, May, and Schaefer at the request of the Interim Committee on County Government
 

        FOR AN ACT ENTITLED, An Act to revise the distribution of the revenue from the alcoholic beverage fund.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF SOUTH DAKOTA:
    Section 1. That § 35-5-22 be amended to read:
    35-5-22. Twenty-five percent of all of the revenues deposited in the alcoholic beverage fund shall revert to the municipalities. The Each municipality's share of each municipality of such the fund shall be determined by the ratio of the population of such each municipality has to the total population of all the municipalities sharing in the receipts from such tax. The Department of Revenue shall make such the reversion by remitting not later than November first, February first, May first, and August first, of each year to the finance officer of each such municipality its share of such fund, and the fund. The amount so received by such each municipality shall be deposited in its the municipality's general fund.
    Section 2. That chapter 35-5 be amended by adding a NEW SECTION to read:
    Twenty-five percent of all of the revenues deposited in the alcoholic beverage fund shall

revert to the counties. Twenty-five percent of such alcoholic beverage fund so distributed to counties shall be divided equally by all counties. The remaining seventy-five percent shall be allocated to counties by the ratio of the population of each county to the total population of all the counties sharing in the receipts. The Department of Revenue shall make the reversion by remitting not later than November first, February first, May first, and August first, of each year to the county auditor of each county its share of the fund. The amount received by each county shall be deposited in the county's general fund to be dedicated to expenses related to county law enforcement, jails, state's attorneys, public defenders, and court-appointed attorneys.