The title of all ordinances shall be read twice with at least five days intervening between the first and second reading. Any ordinance shall be signed by the chairman of the board or the acting chairman, filed with the county auditor and published once. However, an ordinance incorporating and adopting comprehensive regulations or a code promulgated, approved, and published by a recognized and established national organization prescribing building, electrical, plumbing, safety, fire, or health regulations need not be published in a newspaper, but, upon adoption of such an ordinance, the auditor shall publish a notice of the fact of adoption once a week for two successive weeks.
S.D. Codified Laws § 7-18A-5
Reading, signing, filing, and publication required
Applied in 2 court decisions — leading case Bechen v. Moody County Board of Commissioners (2005)
Most recently applied in Bechen v. Moody County Board of Commissioners (August 2005)
Source: SL 1975, ch 82, § 7; SL 1989, ch 68; SL 2021, ch 38, § 1.
Official source: South Dakota Legislature. Reproduced from public-domain South Dakota statutes; confirm against the official source for the current text. Not legal advice.