7-7-22. Powers of deputies–Responsibility of elected officer.
Such deputies are authorized to sign all papers and do all other things which the officers themselves may do respectively, and the respective officers shall be responsible for the acts of their respective deputies.
Source: SL 1887, ch 10, §8; CL 1887, §653; RPolC 1903, §890; RC 1919, §5906; SDC 1939, §12.1601; SL 1955, ch 21.