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- SDCL § 2-7-22 · Forfeiture of office on conviction of legislator--Disqualification from public office.
- SDCL § 2-7-23
- SDCL § 2-7-24 · Preservation of recordings of legislative session by South Dakota Public Broadcasting.
- SDCL § 2-9-1 · Composition and functions.
- SDCL § 2-9-1.1 · Annual report--Judicial opinions.
- SDCL § 2-9-2 · Executive board--Members--Terms--Vacancies.
- SDCL § 2-9-2.1 · Party makeup of executive board members.
- SDCL § 2-9-3 · Executive board chair and vice chair--Vacancies.
- SDCL § 2-9-3.1 · Term of executive board.
- SDCL § 2-9-4 · Executive board--Powers and duties--Approved costs and travel--Appeal of payment decision.
- SDCL § 2-9-5 · Meetings and quorum of board--Rules--Annual report filed with Legislative Research Council.
- SDCL § 2-9-6 · Investigative powers of board.
- SDCL § 2-9-7 · Member compensation and expenses.
- SDCL § 2-9-7.1
- SDCL § 2-9-8 · Director--Staff--Supplies and equipment.
- SDCL § 2-9-9 · Code counsel established--Qualifications and appointment.
- SDCL § 2-9-10 · Offices of code counsel.
- SDCL § 2-9-11 · Powers and duties of code counsel.
- SDCL § 2-9-12
- SDCL § 2-9-13 · Legislative student intern program created within council--Purpose.
- SDCL § 2-9-13.1 · Intern program--Assignment.
- SDCL § 2-9-14 · Intern program--Administration, supervision.
- SDCL § 2-9-15
- SDCL § 2-9-15.1
- SDCL § 2-9-16
- SDCL § 2-9-17
- SDCL § 2-9-20
- SDCL § 2-9-25
- SDCL § 2-9-30 · Initiated measure or initiated constitutional amendment--Fiscal impact--Fiscal note--Preparation--Deadline.
- SDCL § 2-9-30.1
- SDCL § 2-9-30.2 · Certified initiated measure, referred law, or constitutional amendment--Fiscal note revision.
- SDCL § 2-9-31
- SDCL § 2-9-32 · Fiscal note for referred law.
- SDCL § 2-9-33
- SDCL § 2-9-34
- SDCL § 2-11-1 · Composition of commission--Appointment and terms--Life members--Vacancies.
- SDCL § 2-11-1.1
- SDCL § 2-11-2 · Meetings of commission--Chairman and secretary--Record of transactions.
- SDCL § 2-11-3
- SDCL § 2-11-4 · Purpose of commission.
- SDCL § 2-11-5 · Subjects studied by commission--Recommendations for legislation.
- SDCL § 2-11-6 · Attendance at meetings of National Conference--Promotion of uniformity.
- SDCL § 2-11-7
- SDCL § 2-11-8 · Commission reports to Legislature.
- SDCL § 2-12-1 · Names of lobbyists to be registered with secretary of state--Termination of employment.
- SDCL § 2-12-2 · Directory of lobbyists kept by secretary of state--Contents of entries--Open to inspection.
- SDCL § 2-12-3 · Annual registration fee.
- SDCL § 2-12-4 · Authorization to act as lobbyist for employer.
- SDCL § 2-12-5 · Specific legislation to be shown in directory entries--Employment of unregistered lobbyists prohibited.
- SDCL § 2-12-6 · Contingent compensation employment prohibited.
- SDCL § 2-12-7
- SDCL § 2-12-7.1 · Employees of executive branch, a constitutional office, or the judicial system representatives required to register as public employee lobbyists--Budgetary testimony before appropriations committees excepted.
- SDCL § 2-12-8 · Lobbyists not to go on floor except by invitation--Violation as petty offense.
- SDCL § 2-12-8.1 · Badges required of lobbyists within capitol complex--Fees--Composition--Petty offense.
- SDCL § 2-12-8.2 · Officials and personnel prohibited from lobbying within two years after termination of service--Violation as misdemeanor.
- SDCL § 2-12-9 · Improper influence of legislation or legislators as misdemeanor.
- SDCL § 2-12-10 · Restrictions on activities of state and federal agents and employees.
- SDCL § 2-12-11 · Expense reports filed with secretary of state--Open to public inspection--Administrative penalty for untimely report.
- SDCL § 2-12-12
- SDCL § 2-12-13 · Elected board members of local government or federally recognized Indian tribe and church representatives exempt.
- SDCL § 2-12-14 · Right of citizens to appear and speak in their own interests not infringed.
- SDCL § 2-12-15 · Definition of terms in §§ 2-12-15 to 2-12-19.
- SDCL § 2-12-16 · Limitation on gifts from or through lobbyists--Violation as misdemeanor.
- SDCL § 2-12-17 · Public official defined.
- SDCL § 2-12-18 · Gift defined.
- SDCL § 2-12-19 · Index factor defined.
- SDCL § 2-13-1 · Advance copies to judicial officers of acts with emergency clause.
- SDCL § 2-13-2 · Session law publication--Authorities indexed.
- SDCL § 2-13-3
- SDCL § 2-13-5 · Labeling of session law bound volumes.
- SDCL § 2-13-6
- SDCL § 2-13-7 · Free distribution of session laws to state and federal agencies.
- SDCL § 2-13-7.1
- SDCL § 2-13-8
- SDCL § 2-13-9
- SDCL § 2-13-10
- SDCL § 2-13-12 · Copies delivered to Supreme Court and Legislative Research Council--Exchange.
- SDCL § 2-13-13
- SDCL § 2-13-16 · Sale or disposal of session laws.
- SDCL § 2-13-17
- SDCL § 2-14-1 · Words used in ordinary sense.
- SDCL § 2-14-2 · Definition of terms used in code.
- SDCL § 2-14-2.1 · Definition of must and shall.
- SDCL § 2-14-3 · Printing not sufficient to seal note.
- SDCL § 2-14-4 · Application of statutory definitions.
- SDCL § 2-14-5 · Gender of words.
- SDCL § 2-14-6 · Singular and plural words.
- SDCL § 2-14-7 · Tense of verbs.
- SDCL § 2-14-8 · Punctuation not controlling.
- SDCL § 2-14-9 · Source notes, cross-references and titles not part of statute.
- SDCL § 2-14-10 · Source notes not a legislative expression.
- SDCL § 2-14-11 · Arrangement of laws in code.
- SDCL § 2-14-12 · Statutes in derogation of common law--Liberal construction.
- SDCL § 2-14-13 · Uniformity of interpretation of uniform laws.
- SDCL § 2-14-14 · Computation of time in statutes.
- SDCL § 2-14-15 · Majority exercising joint authority.
- SDCL § 2-14-16 · Effective date of legislative acts.
- SDCL § 2-14-16.1 · Two or more amendments of same section at same session--Reconciliation.
- SDCL § 2-14-16.2 · Two or more initiated measures or constitutional amendments approved at same election--Reconciliation.
- SDCL § 2-14-17 · Effect of repeal of act legalizing prior act.