CHAPTER 114

(HB 1064)

Care of clerks' of courts trust funds
to be supervised by the Supreme Court.

         ENTITLED, An Act  to revise certain statutes relating to the authority of the Supreme Court to provide for accounting systems for the accountability of fiduciary funds.

BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF SOUTH DAKOTA:

     Section  1.  That § 16-2-28 be amended to read as follows:

     16-2-28.   Any trust funds paid to or deposited with the county clerk of courts pursuant to statute, judgment, decree or order of court, or otherwise, shall immediately after receipt thereof be paid into the county treasury, by the clerk, and kept in a special fund from which moneys may be disbursed on warrants of the county auditor issued pursuant to an order of court or order of the clerk of courts.

     The Supreme Court shall by rule provide for an accounting system for the receipting , holding, and disbursement of fines, fees, costs, forfeitures, restitution, bonds, trust funds, support and alimony payments, penalties, assessments and other funds established by law.

     Signed February 14, 1998.

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