3-8-2. Annual appropriation for salaries of constitutional officers.

There is hereby annually appropriated out of any money in the state treasury not otherwise appropriated the sums necessary to meet the expenditures authorized by § 3-8-1, and payments shall be made therefrom upon approved vouchers filed in the Office of the State Auditor.

Source: SL 1947, ch 241, § 8; SDC Supp 1960, § 48.0612.

3-8-2.1. Adjustment of salaries of constitutional officers and judges.

The annual salaries of the Governor, the lieutenant governor, the secretary of state, the state auditor, the state treasurer, the attorney general, the commissioner of school and public lands, each justice of the Supreme Court and each circuit judge shall be adjusted annually by the same rate appropriated as the across-the-board increase to base salaries of state employees under the General Appropriations Act in each corresponding year.

Source: SL 1992, ch 2, § 1.

3-8-2.2. Additional adjustment of the salaries of the secretary of state, the state auditor, the state treasurer, the commissioner of school and public lands, the Governor, and the attorney general.

On July 1, 2023, prior to the adjustment required pursuant to § 3-8-2.1, the base annual salaries of the following constitutional officers shall be set to the following values:

(1)    The secretary of state, the state auditor, the state treasurer, and the commissioner of school and public lands, one hundred thirteen thousand dollars;

(2)    The Governor, one hundred thirty thousand dollars;

(3)    The attorney general, one hundred twenty-five thousand dollars.

The salaries, as adjusted pursuant to this section and § 3-8-2.1, shall be the base salaries for the next adjustment required pursuant to § 3-8-2.1. Thereafter, the base salaries of these constitutional officers that are to be annually adjusted in all subsequent years, pursuant to § 3-8-2.1, will be the total of the base salary and adjustment amount established by the prior annual adjustment.

Source: SL 2021, ch 23, § 1.

3-8-2.3. Additional adjustment of the salaries of justices and circuit judges.

The base annual salary of each justice of the Supreme Court and each circuit judge shall be adjusted upward six percent on July 1, 2021, and the subsequent base annual salary shall be adjusted upward an additional six percent on July 1, 2022. Each adjustment is based on the justice's or judge's salary as of the date of the increase and is in addition to any across-the-board increase to the base salary as provided pursuant to § 3-8-2.1.

Source: SL 2021, ch 24, § 1.