<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><head><meta charset="UTF-8" /><meta http-equiv='content-language' content='en-us'/><title>SDLRC - Codified Law 16-5-1.2 - Number of judicial circuits--Counties included. </title><meta name="Generator" content="PowerTools for Open XML" /><style>span { white-space: pre-wrap; } p.s2044531Normal { text-align: justify; font-family: 'Times New Roman', 'serif'; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 108%; margin-top: 0; margin-left: 0; margin-right: 0; margin-bottom: .001pt; } span.s2044531SENU { font-family: 'Times New Roman', 'serif'; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: bold; margin: 0; padding: 0; } span.s2044531CL { font-family: 'Times New Roman', 'serif'; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: bold; margin: 0; padding: 0; } p.s2044531Normal-000000 { text-indent: 0.50in; text-align: justify; font-family: 'Times New Roman', 'serif'; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 108%; margin-top: 0; margin-left: 0; margin-right: 0; margin-bottom: .001pt; } span.s2044531DefaultParagraphFont { font-family: 'Times New Roman', 'serif'; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; margin: 0; padding: 0; } p.s2044531Normal-000001 { margin-left: 0.70in; text-indent: -0.45in; text-align: justify; font-family: 'Times New Roman', 'serif'; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 108%; margin-top: 0; margin-right: 0; margin-bottom: .001pt; } span.s2044531000002 { font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; margin: 0; padding: 0; } span.s2044531SCL { font-family: 'Times New Roman', 'serif'; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: bold; margin: 0; padding: 0; } span.s2044531SCL-000003 { font-family: 'Times New Roman', 'serif'; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; margin: 0; padding: 0; } body { text-decoration-skip-ink: none; } </style></head><body><div><p dir="ltr" class="s2044531Normal"><a href="https://sdlegislature.gov/Statutes/Codified_Laws/DisplayStatute.aspx?Type=Statute&amp;Statute=16-5-1.2"><span class="s2044531SENU">16-5-1.2</span></a><span xml:space="preserve" class="s2044531SENU">. </span><span class="s2044531CL">Number of judicial circuits--Counties included.</span></p><p dir="ltr" class="s2044531Normal-000000"><span class="s2044531DefaultParagraphFont">There shall be seven judicial circuits which shall be numbered and consist of counties as follows:</span></p><p dir="ltr" class="s2044531Normal-000001"><span class="s2044531DefaultParagraphFont">(1)    First Circuit: Aurora, Bon Homme, Brule, Buffalo, Charles Mix, Clay, Davison, Douglas, Hanson, Hutchinson, McCook, Turner, Union, and Yankton Counties;</span></p><p dir="ltr" class="s2044531Normal-000001"><span class="s2044531DefaultParagraphFont">(2)    Second Circuit: Lincoln and Minnehaha Counties;</span></p><p dir="ltr" class="s2044531Normal-000001"><span class="s2044531DefaultParagraphFont">(3)    Third Circuit: Beadle, Brookings, Clark, Codington, Deuel, Grant, Hamlin, Hand, Jerauld, Kingsbury, Lake, Miner, Moody, and Sanborn Counties;</span></p><p dir="ltr" class="s2044531Normal-000001"><span class="s2044531DefaultParagraphFont">(4)    Fourth Circuit: Butte, Corson, Dewey, Harding, Lawrence, Meade, Perkins, and Ziebach Counties;</span></p><p dir="ltr" class="s2044531Normal-000001"><span class="s2044531DefaultParagraphFont">(5)    Fifth Circuit: Brown, Campbell, Day, Edmunds, Faulk, Marshall, McPherson, Roberts, Spink, and Walworth Counties;</span></p><p dir="ltr" class="s2044531Normal-000001"><span class="s2044531DefaultParagraphFont">(6)    Sixth Circuit: Bennett, Gregory, Haakon, Hughes, Hyde, Jackson, Jones, Lyman, Mellette, Potter, Stanley, Sully, Todd, and Tripp Counties; and</span></p><p dir="ltr" class="s2044531Normal-000001"><span class="s2044531DefaultParagraphFont">(7)    Seventh Circuit: Custer, Fall River, Oglala Lakota, and Pennington Counties.</span></p><p dir="ltr" class="s2044531Normal"><span xml:space="preserve" class="s2044531000002"> </span></p><p dir="ltr" class="s2044531Normal"><span class="s2044531SCL">Source:</span><span xml:space="preserve" class="s2044531SCL-000003"> SDC 1939, §§ 32.0406 to 32.0415; SL 1939, ch 130; SL 1941, ch 150, § 1; SL 1953, ch 193; SL 1953, ch 194; SL 1955, ch 123; SL 1957, ch 170; SL 1957, ch 171; SL 1959, ch 224; SL 1963, ch 219; SL 1963, ch 220; SL 1964, ch 106; SL 1964, ch 107; SL 1965, ch 156; SL 1966, ch 114, §§ 3 to 10; SL 1967, ch 138; SL 1967, ch 139, §§ 1 to 3; SDCL §§ </span><a href="https://sdlegislature.gov/Statutes/Codified_Laws/DisplayStatute.aspx?Type=Statute&amp;Statute=16-5-2"><span class="s2044531SCL-000003">16-5-2</span></a><span xml:space="preserve" class="s2044531SCL-000003"> to </span><a href="https://sdlegislature.gov/Statutes/Codified_Laws/DisplayStatute.aspx?Type=Statute&amp;Statute=16-5-11"><span class="s2044531SCL-000003">16-5-11</span></a><span class="s2044531SCL-000003">; SL 1969, ch 144, §§ 1, 2; SL 1970, ch 134; SL 1970, ch 135; SL 1971, ch 152; Supreme Court Rule No. 6, 1972; Supreme Court Order, Sept. 12, 1973, Par. 1; Supreme Court Rule 76-7; Supreme Court Rule 83-5; SL 2000, ch 265 (Supreme Court Order, Aug. 10, 1999); SL 2015, ch 56 (HJR 1005), eff. May 1, 2015.</span></p></div></body></html>