<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 3-5-1 - Bonds of state officers and employees--Approval, recording, and safekeeping. </title><meta name="Generator" content="PowerTools for Open XML" /><style>span { white-space: pre-wrap; } p.s2032736Normal { margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0; text-align: justify; font-family: 'Times New Roman', 'serif'; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 108%; margin-left: 0; margin-right: 0; } span.s2032736SENU { font-family: 'Times New Roman', 'serif'; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: bold; margin: 0; padding: 0; } span.s2032736CL { font-family: 'Times New Roman', 'serif'; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: bold; margin: 0; padding: 0; } p.s2032736Normal-000000 { margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0; text-indent: 0.50in; text-align: justify; font-family: 'Times New Roman', 'serif'; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 108%; margin-left: 0; margin-right: 0; } span.s2032736DefaultParagraphFont { font-family: 'Times New Roman', 'serif'; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; margin: 0; padding: 0; } span.s2032736DefaultParagraphFont-000001 { font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; margin: 0; padding: 0; } span.s2032736000002 { font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; margin: 0; padding: 0; } span.s2032736SCL { font-family: 'Times New Roman', 'serif'; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: bold; margin: 0; padding: 0; } span.s2032736SCL-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="s2032736Normal"><a href="https://sdlegislature.gov/Statutes/Codified_Laws/DisplayStatute.aspx?Type=Statute&amp;Statute=3-5-1"><span class="s2032736SENU">3-5-1</span></a><span xml:space="preserve" class="s2032736SENU">. </span><span class="s2032736CL">Bonds of state officers and employees--Approval, recording, and safekeeping.</span></p><p dir="ltr" class="s2032736Normal-000000"><span class="s2032736DefaultParagraphFont">The bonds of all state officers, appointees of the Governor or employees of the state, required to give bonds, shall be given to the State of South Dakota, and shall be approved by the Governor as to sufficiency and by the attorney general as to form, except that the form of the attorney general's bond shall be approved by one of the justices of the Supreme Court, and all such bonds when so approved, shall be recorded in the Office of the Secretary of State in a book to be known as the "Bond Record" and when such bonds have been recorded the secretary of state shall immediately deliver same to the auditor</span><span class="s2032736DefaultParagraphFont-000001">-</span><span class="s2032736DefaultParagraphFont">general for safekeeping in the State Department of Legislative Audit, who shall index the same alphabetically and file numerically, except the bond of the auditor</span><span class="s2032736DefaultParagraphFont-000001">-</span><span class="s2032736DefaultParagraphFont">general and his employees, which shall be delivered to the state auditor and kept on file in his office. The state auditor's and auditor</span><span class="s2032736DefaultParagraphFont-000001">-</span><span class="s2032736DefaultParagraphFont">general's receipts for said bonds shall be filed with the secretary of state.</span></p><p dir="ltr" class="s2032736Normal"><span xml:space="preserve" class="s2032736000002"> </span></p><p dir="ltr" class="s2032736Normal"><span class="s2032736SCL">Source:</span><span xml:space="preserve" class="s2032736SCL-000003"> CL 1887, § 1373; SL 1895, ch 147, § 1; RPolC 1903, § 1790; SL 1913, ch 283; RC 1919, § 7026; SL 1919, ch 285; SDC 1939, § 48.0303; SL 1955, ch 222.</span></p></div></body></html>