Policemen, firemen, and employees appointed under any civil service ordinance and not represented by any labor or employee organization authorized by chapter 3-18 may be removed only pursuant to the provisions of the ordinance. Nothing in this section restricts the Governor's authority, pursuant to § 3-17-3, to remove local law enforcement officers, including those appointed under any civil service ordinance. Officers and employees appointed by a city manager may be removed by him.
S.D. Codified Laws § 9-14-15
Removal of civil service employees--Governor's authority--Appointees of city manager
Applied in 3 court decisions — leading case Karlen v. Janklow (1983)
Most recently applied in City of Sioux Falls v. Miller (November 1996)
Source: SDC 1939, § 45.1109; SL 1982, ch 72, § 2; SL 1983, ch 57
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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.
Official source: South Dakota Legislature. Reproduced from public-domain South Dakota statutes; confirm against the official source for the current text. Not legal advice.