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SD Codified L § 9-20-16 (2021)
2021 South Dakota Codified Laws|Title 9 - Municipal Government|Chapter 20 - Initiative And Referendum|Section 9-20-16 - Preservation of referendum petitions--Open to public inspection.

9-20-16. Preservation of referendum petitions--Open to public inspection.The auditor or clerk shall preserve all petitions invoking the referendum filed in his office for a period of at least two years, during which time such petitions shall be open to public inspection upon reasonable request. Source: SL 1899, ch 94, §7; RPolC 1903, §1220; SL 1913, ch 119, §44; RC 1919, §6259; SDC 1939, §45.1016.
SD Codified L § 9-20-17 (2021)
2021 South Dakota Codified Laws|Title 9 - Municipal Government|Chapter 20 - Initiative And Referendum|Section 9-20-17 - Waiting period for new action after referendum election.

9-20-17. Waiting period for new action after referendum election.No referred ordinance or resolution may be again voted upon by the government of any municipality within one year from the date of the election thereon. Source: SDC Supp 1960, §45.1022 as enacted by SL 1961, ch 246.
SD Codified L § 9-20-18 (2021)
2021 South Dakota Codified Laws|Title 9 - Municipal Government|Chapter 20 - Initiative And Referendum|Section 9-20-18 - Legislative finding--Actions of municipal governing boards subject to referendum.

9-20-18. Legislative finding--Actions of municipal governing boards subject to referendum.The Legislature finds that in making past grants of decision-making authority to municipal governing authorities, its intent was to grant that authority to the governing bodies of municipalities and that such actions, unless otherwise excluded from the referendum and initiative process by other state law, are subject to the initiative and referendum process. Therefore, the contrary holding in Baker v. Jackson, 372 NW2d 142 (SD, July 31, 1985) is hereby abrogated. Source: SL 1986, ch 73, §1.
SD Codified L § 9-20-19 (2021)
2021 South Dakota Codified Laws|Title 9 - Municipal Government|Chapter 20 - Initiative And Referendum|Section 9-20-19 - Legislative decision of governing body subject to referendum--Administrative decision not subject to referendum.

9-20-19. Legislative decision of governing body subject to referendum--Administrative decision not subject to referendum.Any legislative decision of a governing body is subject to the referendum process. A legislative decision is one that enacts a permanent law or lays down a rule of conduct or course of policy for the guidance of citizens or their officers. Any matter of a permanent or general character is a legislative decision.No administrative decision of a governing body is subject to the referendum process, unless specifically authorized by this code. An administrative decision is one that merely puts into execution a plan already adopted by the governing body itself or by the Legislature. Supervision of a program is an administrative decision. Hiring, disciplining, and setting the salaries of employees are administrative decisions. Source: SL 1986, ch 73, §2.
SD Codified L § 9-21-1 (2021)
2021 South Dakota Codified Laws|Title 9 - Municipal Government|Chapter 21 - Tax Levies And Appropriations|Section 9-21-1 - Fiscal year of municipalities.

9-21-1. Fiscal year of municipalities.The fiscal year of each municipality shall commence on the first day of January of each year. Source: SL 1890, ch 37, art VII, §7; SL 1890, ch 37, art XV, §1; RPolC 1903, §1295; SL 1913, ch 119, §114; RC 1919, §6333; SL 1921, ch 298; SDC 1939, §45.1401.
SD Codified L § 9-21-2 (2021)
2021 South Dakota Codified Laws|Title 9 - Municipal Government|Chapter 21 - Tax Levies And Appropriations|Section 9-21-2 - Annual appropriation ordinance--Time of introduction--Contents--Enterprise and trust and agency funds.

9-21-2. Annual appropriation ordinance--Time of introduction--Contents--Enterprise and trust and agency funds.The governing body of each municipality shall, no later than its first regular meeting in September of each year or within ten days thereafter, introduce the annual appropriation ordinance for the ensuing fiscal year, in which it shall appropriate the sums of money necessary to meet all lawful expenses and liabilities of the municipality. The ordinance shall specify the function and subfunction as prescribed by the Department of Legislative Audit for which the appropriations are made and the amount appropriated for each function and subfunction, which amount shall be appropriated from the proper fund. It is not necessary to appropriate revenue to be expended from an enterprise or trust and agency fund if the fund is not supported or subsidized by revenue derived from the annual appropriated tax levy. However, an annual budget for these funds shall be developed and published no later than December thirty-first of each year. Source: SL 1890, ch 37, art XV, §2; RPolC 1903, §1296; SL 1913, ch 119, §115; RC 1919, §6334; SL 1921, ch 295, §1; SDC 1939, §45.1402; SL 1953, ch 257; SDC Supp 1960, §45.1402 (1); SL 1983, ch 58; SL 1984, ch 58; SL 1985, ch 63.
SD Codified L § 9-21-3 (2021)
2021 South Dakota Codified Laws|Title 9 - Municipal Government|Chapter 21 - Tax Levies And Appropriations|Section 9-21-3 - Appropriations limited to municipal powers.

9-21-3. Appropriations limited to municipal powers.No money belonging to any municipality shall be appropriated except for such objects and the defraying of such expenses as necessarily arise in the exercise of the powers granted to it. Source: PolC 1877, ch 24, §24; CL 1887, §1045; RPolC 1903, §1443; RC 1919, §6345; SDC 1939, §45.1406.
SD Codified L § 9-21-5 (2021)
2021 South Dakota Codified Laws|Title 9 - Municipal Government|Chapter 21 - Tax Levies And Appropriations|Section 9-21-5 - Appropriations for support of Civil Air Patrol.

9-21-5. Appropriations for support of Civil Air Patrol.The governing bodies of municipalities may contribute sums of money annually to the support of units of the Civil Air Patrol located in their respective municipalities. For the purposes of carrying out the provisions of this section, such governing bodies may appropriate out of the general funds of their respective municipalities. Source: SL 1964, ch 146.
SD Codified L § 9-21-6 (2021)
2021 South Dakota Codified Laws|Title 9 - Municipal Government|Chapter 21 - Tax Levies And Appropriations|Section 9-21-6 - Classification of expenditures in annual appropriation ordinance.

9-21-6. Classification of expenditures in annual appropriation ordinance.The classification of expenditures in the annual appropriation ordinance of municipalities of the first and second class shall conform to the uniform classification in the municipal accounting manual published in accordance with §4-11-6. Source: SL 1925, ch 115, ch II, art III, §3; SL 1931, ch 107; SL 1933, ch 57, §1; SL 1937, ch 106; SDC 1939, §45.1403; SL 1957, ch 249; SL 1971, ch 62; SL 1977, ch 73, §2.
SD Codified L § 9-21-6.1 (2021)
2021 South Dakota Codified Laws|Title 9 - Municipal Government|Chapter 21 - Tax Levies And Appropriations|Section 9-21-6.1 - Line item for contingencies--Maximum amount--Transfer to other appropriations.

9-21-6.1. Line item for contingencies--Maximum amount--Transfer to other appropriations.In preparing the annual estimate of expenses as provided by §9-22-23, the auditor or clerk may include in the budget a line item for contingencies. The line item shall be included in the annual budget adopted pursuant to §9-21-2 and shall not exceed five percent of the total municipal budget. No expenditures shall be charged to this item but such appropriated amount may be transferred, by resolution of the municipal governing body, to any other appropriation in which insufficient amounts were provided or for items for which no appropriation was provided. Source: SL 1975, ch 95, §1.
SD Codified L § 9-21-7 (2021)
2021 South Dakota Codified Laws|Title 9 - Municipal Government|Chapter 21 - Tax Levies And Appropriations|Section 9-21-7 - Supplemental appropriation ordinance for indispensable functions or discharge of municipal duties.

9-21-7. Supplemental appropriation ordinance for indispensable functions or discharge of municipal duties.In the event of the failure to provide by the annual appropriation ordinance, sufficient revenue to enable the municipality to conduct the indispensable functions of government in any department, or to discharge any duty which it is the lawful duty of the municipality to discharge and which requires the incurring of liabilities or expenditures of funds for a purpose or object for which no provision has been made in the annual appropriation ordinance for such fiscal year, and when any of such occasions arise the governing body of such municipality may make, approve and adopt a supplemental appropriation ordinance, providing therein for appropriations for any or such purposes in such amounts as said governing body may determine necessary and such supplemental appropriation ordinance shall set out in detail each item for which an appropriation is made and the amount thereof. The adoption of such supplemental appropriation ordinance shall be governed by the same laws pertaining to the adoption of the annual appropriation ordinance. Source: SDC 1939, §45.1402 (3) as added by SL 1953, ch 257.
SD Codified L § 9-21-8 (2021)
2021 South Dakota Codified Laws|Title 9 - Municipal Government|Chapter 21 - Tax Levies And Appropriations|Section 9-21-8 - Additional appropriations prohibited--Bond authorization as appropriation.

9-21-8. Additional appropriations prohibited--Bond authorization as appropriation.No further appropriations shall be made at any other time for such fiscal year, except as provided in §§9-21-2 and 9-21-7. Whenever the governing body is authorized by the voters to issue bonds for a specific purpose, it shall be deemed an appropriation to the extent of the bonds authorized. Source: SL 1890, ch 37, art XV, §2; RPolC 1903, §1296; SL 1913, ch 119, §115; RC 1919, §6334; SL 1921, ch 295, §1; SDC 1939, §45.1402; SL 1953, ch 257; SDC Supp 1960, §45.1402 (4).
SD Codified L § 9-21-9 (2021)
2021 South Dakota Codified Laws|Title 9 - Municipal Government|Chapter 21 - Tax Levies And Appropriations|Section 9-21-9 - Expenditures limited to appropriated amounts.

9-21-9. Expenditures limited to appropriated amounts.Neither the governing body nor any department or officer of the municipality shall add to the municipal expenditures in any fiscal year any sum in excess of the amount provided for in the annual appropriation ordinance except as otherwise specially provided. Nor shall the amount spent for any purpose or any department exceed the total amount appropriated for such purpose or for such department in the annual appropriation ordinance for such year, except as otherwise specially provided. Source: SL 1890, ch 37, art XV, §3; RPolC 1903, §1297; SL 1913, ch 119, §116; RC 1919, §6335; SL 1921, ch 295, §2; SL 1933, ch 152; SDC 1939, §45.1404; SL 1939, ch 187; SL 1949, ch 184.
SD Codified L § 9-21-9.1 (2021)
2021 South Dakota Codified Laws|Title 9 - Municipal Government|Chapter 21 - Tax Levies And Appropriations|Section 9-21-9.1 - State, county and federal grants expended without provision in appropriation ordinance--Publication.

9-21-9.1. State, county and federal grants expended without provision in appropriation ordinance--Publication.Any funds made available after the final appropriation ordinance is adopted by a municipality from state, county, and federal grants for expenditure by the municipality shall be paid into the municipal treasury and may be expended without specific provision in the appropriations ordinance of the municipality. In this case the governing body shall publish, in the official newspaper of the municipality, the purpose for which the expenditures were made and to whom the expenditures were made. Source: SL 1973, ch 42, §2; SL 1980, ch 56, §2.
SD Codified L § 9-21-9.2 (2021)
2021 South Dakota Codified Laws|Title 9 - Municipal Government|Chapter 21 - Tax Levies And Appropriations|Section 9-21-9.2 - Restoration of funds on reimbursement from other subdivisions, departments, or insurance.

9-21-9.2. Restoration of funds on reimbursement from other subdivisions, departments, or insurance.If the governing board of any municipality authorizes lawful expenditures from any specific fund for the use or benefit of another municipal department or political subdivision or expenditures to be reimbursed by insurance claims, the reimbursement for such expenditures shall be restored to the fund from which originally withdrawn and the deposit of the same shall restore the budget of such fund in the amount of the reimbursement. Source: SL 1975, ch 87; SL 1976, ch 81.
SD Codified L § 9-21-10 (2021)
2021 South Dakota Codified Laws|Title 9 - Municipal Government|Chapter 21 - Tax Levies And Appropriations|Section 9-21-10 - Contracts prohibited unless covered by appropriation or bonds.

9-21-10. Contracts prohibited unless covered by appropriation or bonds.Except as otherwise provided no contract shall be made by the governing body of any municipality and no expense shall be incurred by any department or any officer thereof, whether ordered by the governing body or not, unless an appropriation shall have been previously made concerning such expense, or the governing body authorized to issue bonds for a specific purpose. Source: SL 1890, ch 37, art XV, §4; RPolC 1903, §1298; RC 1919, §6336; SL 1921, ch 295, §3; SL 1925, ch 233; SDC 1939, §45.1405; SL 1941, ch 199; SL 1953, ch 258; SL 1959, ch 269.
SD Codified L § 9-21-11 (2021)
2021 South Dakota Codified Laws|Title 9 - Municipal Government|Chapter 21 - Tax Levies And Appropriations|Section 9-21-11 - Long-term contracts authorized for utility services and improvement of irrigable lands--Appropriation required--Referendum.

9-21-11. Long-term contracts authorized for utility services and improvement of irrigable lands--Appropriation required--Referendum.The governing body may enter into a contract for any term of years as the governing body may determine with any person or any rural water system, water user district, sanitary district, water project district, or like organization for the purchase by the municipality of water, gas, or electricity. If a contract is entered into with the United States government, or any agency or department thereof, providing for the sale and purchase of water or the acquisition of a municipal water supply, the contract may be for any term of years as said governing body may determine, or for the leveling or improvement of irrigable lands belonging to the municipality, which lands were on February 20, 1953, located and situated within the boundaries of an existing irrigation district. If any contract entered into pursuant to this section extends for more than one year, an appropriation need not have been previously made concerning such expense, except sufficient to cover the amount payable or estimated to become payable under such contract for the first year thereof. The governing body shall annually thereafter appropriate an amount sufficient to cover the amount payable or estimated to become payable under such contract during the ensuing fiscal year.Such contracts shall be subject to referendum as ordinances. Source: SL 1925, ch 233; SDC 1939, §45.1405; SL 1941, ch 199; SL 1953, ch 258; SL 1959, ch 269; SL 1974, ch 72; SL 1991, ch 71.
SD Codified L § 9-21-12 (2021)
2021 South Dakota Codified Laws|Title 9 - Municipal Government|Chapter 21 - Tax Levies And Appropriations|Section 9-21-12 - Authorization of depreciation reserve within proprietary fund.

9-21-12. Authorization of depreciation reserve within proprietary fund.The governing body of a municipality may by resolution create a depreciation reserve within each proprietary fund, as necessary, not to exceed the accumulated depreciation of the fixed assets of the respective fund. Source: SL 1951, ch 247, §1; SDC Supp 1960, §45.0201-1 (9); SL 1978, ch 62, §8; SL 1991, ch 72.
SD Codified L § 9-21-13 (2021)
2021 South Dakota Codified Laws|Title 9 - Municipal Government|Chapter 21 - Tax Levies And Appropriations|Section 9-21-13 - Purposes of depreciation or capital replacement reserves.

9-21-13. Purposes of depreciation or capital replacement reserves.The depreciation or the capital replacement reserves shall be used only to replace and repair equipment belonging to the municipality and may not be used for the acquisition of equipment which would represent a substantial expansion in the total amount of equipment belonging to the municipality. Equipment for the purposes of this section shall mean properties commonly considered as representing capital outlay rather than operating expense outlay and shall include municipally owned buildings and lands. Source: SL 1951, ch 247, §2; SDC Supp 1960, §45.0201-1 (9); SL 1994, ch 69, §2.
SD Codified L § 9-21-14.1 (2021)
2021 South Dakota Codified Laws|Title 9 - Municipal Government|Chapter 21 - Tax Levies And Appropriations|Section 9-21-14.1 - Accumulation of funds for capital outlay purposes--Maximum amount.

9-21-14.1. Accumulation of funds for capital outlay purposes--Maximum amount.The governing body of a municipality may by resolution authorize the accumulation of funds for a period longer than one year for specific capital outlay purposes otherwise authorized by law. For the purpose of this section, capital outlay purposes means purposes which result in the acquisition of or additions to plant, or equipment, including expenditures for land, existing facilities, improvement of grounds, construction of facilities, additions to facilities, remodeling of facilities, or for the purchase of equipment. The governing body shall establish a maximum amount allowed to be accumulated in the fund. Source: SL 1979, ch 55, §1; SL 1980, ch 68, §1; SL 1989, ch 75, §1; SL 2016, ch 53, §2.
SD Codified L § 9-21-14.2 (2021)
2021 South Dakota Codified Laws|Title 9 - Municipal Government|Chapter 21 - Tax Levies And Appropriations|Section 9-21-14.2 - Vote required for capital outlay accumulation--Time of expenditure--Reversion of unused funds.

9-21-14.2. Vote required for capital outlay accumulation--Time of expenditure--Reversion of unused funds.The resolution authorized by §9-21-14.1 shall be enacted by a two-thirds vote of the governing body and shall set forth clearly the purposes for which the funds are to be accumulated and the maximum amount that may be accumulated. The funds to be accumulated shall be expended within sixty months from the date of the resolution. If the specific purposes for which the funds are accumulated are deemed no longer necessary, these funds shall revert to the general fund. Source: SL 1979, ch 55, §§2, 4.
SD Codified L § 9-21-15 (2021)
2021 South Dakota Codified Laws|Title 9 - Municipal Government|Chapter 21 - Tax Levies And Appropriations|Section 9-21-15 - Replacement or repair required by unanticipated event--Borrowing and addition to tax levy.

9-21-15. Replacement or repair required by unanticipated event--Borrowing and addition to tax levy.No expenditure for any improvement, replacement, repair or service shall exceed in any one year the amount provided therefor in the annual appropriation ordinance of a municipality, except that the governing body may expend the proceeds of any bond issue authorized by the voters of the municipality, or in case of emergency, by a unanimous vote, may by resolution order any improvement, replacement, repair or lawful service the necessity of which is caused by any casualty, accident, circumstances or event happening after such annual appropriation ordinance is made which could not have reasonably been anticipated at the time of making the annual appropriation ordinance. The governing body may order the mayor or president to borrow in the name of the municipal corporation, with the attest of the auditor or clerk, a sufficient amount to provide for the necessary expense to be incurred in making any improvement, replacement or repair and in furnishing such service the necessity of which has so arisen, for a period not exceeding the close of the next fiscal year, which sum and interest shall be added to the amount authorized to be raised by the next general tax levy. Source: SDC 1939, §45.1404; SL 1939, ch 187; SL 1949, ch 184.
SD Codified L § 9-21-16 (2021)
2021 South Dakota Codified Laws|Title 9 - Municipal Government|Chapter 21 - Tax Levies And Appropriations|Section 9-21-16 - Surplus funds used for replacement or repair required by unanticipated event.

9-21-16. Surplus funds used for replacement or repair required by unanticipated event.If the municipal corporation has on hand any unappropriated money, or money not raised by taxation, loan, or assessment, which can be spared for the purpose described in §9-21-15 and which has not been pledged for the payment of any indebtedness of the municipality, or any money in any fund which the governing body by unanimous vote determines will not be needed for any other municipal purpose during the current fiscal year, such money may be transferred by the governing body, by unanimous vote, in order to provide in whole or in part the money made necessary by such unanticipated events or circumstances, and such money may be used in lieu of such borrowing or the borrowing may be supplementary thereto. Source: SDC 1939, §45.1404 as added by SL 1949, ch 184.
SD Codified L § 9-21-16.1 (2021)
2021 South Dakota Codified Laws|Title 9 - Municipal Government|Chapter 21 - Tax Levies And Appropriations|Section 9-21-16.1 - Casualty reserve fund authorized--Limitation on amount and use of fund--Interest.

9-21-16.1. Casualty reserve fund authorized--Limitation on amount and use of fund--Interest.The governing body of a municipality may, by resolution or ordinance, establish a fund to be designated the casualty reserve fund and the governing body may, in their annual appropriation, set forth a specific amount for such fund. The amount appropriated shall be transferred to such fund. However, at no time may the money in such fund exceed the sum of one hundred thousand dollars. The money in the fund may be expended only for the payment of expenses to replace and repair property of the municipality which was damaged or lost as a result of a casualty loss. If this fund is at the maximum amount allowed, the interest earned from the investment of the fund shall be placed in the municipality's general fund. Source: SL 1968, ch 189; SL 1977, ch 75; SL 1986, ch 74.
SD Codified L § 9-21-17 (2021)
2021 South Dakota Codified Laws|Title 9 - Municipal Government|Chapter 21 - Tax Levies And Appropriations|Section 9-21-17 - Judgment against municipality--Borrowing--Maximum tax levy to pay judgment.

9-21-17. Judgment against municipality--Borrowing--Maximum tax levy to pay judgment.If any judgment is obtained against the municipality, it may borrow for a space of time not exceeding the close of the fiscal year a sum sufficient to pay the judgment, if a tax levy of ten dollars per thousand dollars of taxable valuation of the municipality will be sufficient to pay all judgments subsisting and final at the time of making the levy. No tax levy greater than ten dollars per thousand dollars of taxable valuation of any municipality, may be made in any one year for the payment of a judgment or judgments. If a levy of ten dollars per thousand dollars of taxable valuation per year on such valuation will be insufficient to pay any final judgment within ten years from the date it becomes final in a municipality with a population in excess of five hundred, a tax levy may be made of any amount sufficient to pay every judgment and the interest thereon in ten equal installments within ten years from the date it becomes final. In a municipality with a population of five hundred or less a tax levy of ten dollars per thousand dollars of taxable valuation of such municipality may be made for the payment of the judgment and the interest thereon. However, the levy may not be made for a period in excess of nineteen years for the purpose of payment of any one judgment. Source: SL 1890, ch 37, art XV, §3; RPolC 1903, §1297; SL 1913, ch 119, §116; RC 1919, §6335; SL 1921, ch 295, §2; SL 1933, ch 152; SDC 1939, §45.1404; SL 1939, ch 187; SL 1949, ch 184; SL 1983, ch 60.