9-14-3. Appointment of officers. Such officers as needed and provided for by ordinance shall be appointed. Each appointive officer of a municipality governed by a mayor and common council shall be appointed by the mayor with the approval of the council, and in other municipalities, each officer shall be appointed by a majority vote of […]
9-14-30. Life, health and accident insurance provided for municipal officers and employees–Restriction on accident insurance. The municipalities of the State of South Dakota and their several offices, boards, and departments may, in their discretion, provide either by self insurance, or by purchase from private companies, group life, health and accident insurance, or any one or […]
9-14-31. Officers and employees covered by insurance authorization. The term “employee” is defined to include all persons who receive more than fifty percent of all compensation for personal services, rendered to the State of South Dakota, or to any of its governmental subdivisions, or to any of the several offices, boards, and departments thereof. The […]
9-14-32. Appropriations authorized for cost of insurance. Municipalities of the State of South Dakota are hereby authorized to appropriate the necessary funds for the cost of all or any portion of the insurance provided for by §9-14-30. Source: SL 1949, ch 199, §2; SDC Supp 1960, §45.0201-1 (7); SL 1974, ch 70.
9-14-33. Salary deductions for insurance participation. Authority and power is hereby given to said employees or officers to direct the municipalities of the State of South Dakota covered hereby to pay out of the salary or wages of such employees or officers the amount of their participation in the cost of insurance provided pursuant to […]
9-14-34. Administration of insurance programs. The policy or policies for the insurance provided in §9-14-30 may be administered by the municipalities through their respective governing bodies, acting individually or jointly through some joint agency created by such governmental subdivisions for carrying out the purposes of §§9-14-30 to 9-14-35, inclusive, or the municipalities may contract with […]
9-14-35. Inclusion of retired officers and employees and dependents of deceased officers and employees in insurance program. The governing body of a municipality, or a municipal retirement system may, in its discretion, include retired employees and officers and their spouses and dependents eligible under the appropriate policy and the spouses and dependents eligible under the […]
9-14-35.1. Flexible spending accounts. Any health insurance plan or policy provided by a municipality for municipal officers and employees and other persons pursuant to §§9-14-30 and 9-14-35 may include the use of flexible spending accounts, which may include payment or reimbursement through the use of debit cards, direct deposit to financial institutions, by check, or […]
9-14-36. Life insurance and retirement programs authorized for municipal employees–Salary deductions–Groups covered–Required participation. The governing body of any municipal corporation in this state is hereby empowered and authorized to enter into insurance contracts for the protection and benefit of its employees and such insurance contracts may be in the form of group life insurance, salary […]
9-14-37. Neglect of duty or misconduct by municipal officer as misdemeanor–Removal from office. It is a Class 2 misdemeanor for any member of the governing body or other municipal officer to commit a palpable omission of duty or to intentionally commit oppression, misconduct, or malfeasance in the discharge of the duties of his office. Upon […]
9-14-39. Delivery of records and property to successor in office–Liability and penalties for refusal. Any person having been an officer of any municipality shall, within five days after demand, deliver to his successor in office all books, property, and effects of every description in his possession belonging to the municipality or pertaining to his office. […]
9-14-4. Commissions and certificates of appointment. All appointive officers except the auditor and marshal shall be commissioned by warrant, under the corporate seal, signed by the mayor and auditor. The marshal shall be commissioned by warrant, under the corporate seal, signed by the president of the Board of Trustees and the clerk. The mayor shall […]
9-14-40. Housing for police officers and personnel–Terms–Rent. Any second or third class municipality within the State of South Dakota may erect, purchase, lease, rent, equip, furnish, insure, sell, and move dwellings to be used as housing for police officers and other police personnel of the municipality. Such municipality may establish the terms and rental amounts […]
9-14-41. Payment by occupant of municipal dwelling of amount equal to property tax on property. The occupant of any dwelling owned by a municipality pursuant to §9-14-40 shall pay to each taxing agency within each taxing jurisdiction in which the property is situated, in lieu of taxes on the property, the amount of the property […]
9-14-42. Criminal background check of persons seeking employment with municipalities. Each person over eighteen years of age seeking employment with a municipality shall submit, subject to the discretion of the municipality, to a state and federal criminal background investigation by means of fingerprint checks by the South Dakota Division of Criminal Investigation and the Federal […]
9-14-43. City fire department employees–Hours of employment. The hours of employment of full-time employees of city fire departments are governed by mutual agreements with the respective municipal corporations. The hours of employment for any such employee may not exceed two hundred twelve hours during a twenty-eight-day work period or two hundred four hours during a […]
9-14-5. Qualification and discharge of duties of office by appointive and elective officers. Each appointive municipal officer shall begin discharging the duties of the office as soon as the officer has qualified by filing an oath or affirmation of office in the usual form provided by law. The officer shall file the form within ten […]
9-14-6. Oath of appointive officers–Undertaking. Each appointive officer, before entering upon the discharge of the duties of the office, shall take and subscribe an oath or affirmation of office, in the form required by the Constitution. The officer shall furnish an undertaking to be approved by the governing body. The undertaking shall be in a […]
9-14-6.1. Amount of finance officer’s bond. The amount of the bond of the municipal finance officer shall be annually established by the governing board in an amount equal to the maximum monetary total estimated to be on hand at any one time, but the amount of such bond required may not exceed two hundred fifty […]
9-14-7. Oath or affirmation and undertaking of clerk, director of equalization, treasurer, and marshal in third class municipalities. In third class municipalities the clerk, director of equalization, treasurer, and marshal, within ten days after the first meeting of the month following the election or appointment, shall take and subscribe an oath or affirmation of office […]
