State of South Dakota  
EIGHTY-THIRD SESSION
LEGISLATIVE ASSEMBLY, 2008  

385P0388   HOUSE BILL   NO.   1122  

Introduced by:     Representatives Engels, Ahlers, Buckingham, Burg, Cutler, Feinstein, Gassman, Gillespie, Gilson, Lucas, Lust, Miles, Moore, Nygaard, Peters, Sigdestad, Street, Thompson, Vanneman, Vehle, and Willadsen and Senators Turbak Berry, Abdallah, Albers, Heidepriem, Knudson, Koetzle, and Schmidt (Dennis)
 

         FOR AN ACT ENTITLED, An Act to  increase the jurisdictional amount in certain civil actions and small claims proceedings.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF SOUTH DAKOTA:
     Section 1.  That § 16-12B-13 be amended to read as follows:
     16-12B-13.   A magistrate court with a magistrate judge presiding has concurrent jurisdiction with the circuit courts to try and determine all civil actions, if the debt, damage, claim, or value of the property involved does not exceed ten twelve thousand dollars. Any magistrate court with a magistrate judge presiding has jurisdiction in small claims proceedings, if the debt, damage, claim, or value of the property involved does not exceed eight twelve thousand dollars.
     Section 2.  That § 16-12C-13 be amended to read as follows:
     16-12C-13.   A magistrate court with a clerk magistrate presiding has concurrent jurisdiction with the circuit courts, in noncontested civil actions or noncontested small claims proceedings where the

amount of money or damage does not exceed eight twelve thousand dollars, to take the necessary evidence and to enter a judgment.