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HB 1156 require municipalities to reimburse the counties for certain j...
State of South Dakota  
NINETY-FIRST SESSION
LEGISLATIVE ASSEMBLY, 2016  

672X0575   HOUSE BILL   NO.  1156  

Introduced by:    Representatives Haggar (Don), Brunner, Klumb, and Schaefer and Senators Haggar (Jenna) and Ewing
 

        FOR AN ACT ENTITLED, An Act to require municipalities to reimburse the counties for certain judicial and law enforcement expenditures.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF SOUTH DAKOTA:
    Section 1. That the code be amended by adding a NEW SECTION to read:
    Beginning on June 1, 2018, and on June first of each year thereafter, each county shall submit to each incorporated municipality within the county the expenditures for certain judicial and law enforcement costs as defined in section 2 of this Act. Each municipality shall reimburse the county based on its pro rata share of the total county population times the total judicial and law enforcement costs paid by the county in the preceding calendar year. Each municipality shall reimburse the county by August first each year.
    The most recent decennial census of the United States Department of Commerce, Bureau of the Census shall be used to determine the county and municipal population.
    Section 2. That the code be amended by adding a NEW SECTION to read:
    For the purposes of this Act, the term, judicial and law enforcement costs, means the expenditures made by the county during the preceding calendar year for the judicial system,

public defender, court appointed attorney, abused and neglected child defense, other legal services, county jail, and juvenile detention. The term does not include the expenditures made for the state's attorney, sheriff, or county-wide law enforcement.