Any officer of any local unit of government may be charged, tried, and removed from office for misconduct, malfeasance, nonfeasance, crimes in office, drunkenness, gross incompetency, corruption, theft, oppression, or gross partiality.
S.D. Codified Laws § 3-17-6
Grounds for removal of local officers from office
Applied in 2 court decisions — leading case Patterson v. Linn (2001)
Most recently applied in Patterson v. Linn (November 2001)
Source: PolC 1877, ch 22, § 3; CL 1887, § 1387; RPolC 1903, § 1806; SL 1915, ch 268, § 1; RC 1919, § 7012; SL 1929, ch 214; SDC 1939, § 48.0204; SL 1977, ch 57; SL 1981, ch 177,…
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