Persons to whom notice must be given
Applied in 16 court decisions — leading case Wolff v. Secretary of the South Dakota Game, Fish & Parks Department (1996)
Most recently applied in Estate of Smeenk (July 2022)
Source: SL 1986, ch 4, § 3; SL 1994, ch 40; SL 2024, ch 1 (Ex
Court decisions citing this, by year. The dip in the last several years is a data-coverage gap, not a real trend — our corpus holds fewer opinions from the most recent years, so recent citations are undercounted.
Notice shall be given to the following officers as applicable:
(1) In the case of the State of South Dakota, to the attorney general and the commissioner of human resources and administration;
(2) In the case of a county, to the county auditor;
(3) In the case of a municipality, to the mayor or city finance officer;
(4) In the case of a school district, to the superintendent of schools;
(5) In the case of other public entities, to the chief executive officer or secretary of the governing board.
Official source: South Dakota Legislature. Reproduced from public-domain South Dakota statutes; confirm against the official source for the current text. Not legal advice.