The South Dakota Code Commission is hereby authorized to make such changes as may be necessary to correct apparent errors, to correlate and integrate all the laws to harmonize, to assign new title and other designations, to eliminate or clarify obviously obsolete or ambiguous sections that exist, and to substitute terms or phraseology, and names of boards, commissions, and agencies, wherever the Legislature has expressly or by implication indicated an intention to do so, so as to provide consistency in the law.
S.D. Codified Laws § 2-16-9
Arrangement, correlation, and text changes in code
Applied in 1 court decision — leading case State, Department of Public Safety v. Cronin (1977)
Most recently applied in State, Department of Public Safety v. Cronin (February 1977)
Source: SL 1966, ch 239, § 4 (4); SL 1967, ch 265.
Official source: South Dakota Legislature. Reproduced from public-domain South Dakota statutes; confirm against the official source for the current text. Not legal advice.