Section 1-16A-73.23 - Community to provide portion of dentist tuition reimbursement amount--Criteria--Secretary to pay balance--Time for payment--Installment payments by community. - South Dakota Statutes

1-16A-73.23. Community to provide portion of dentist tuition reimbursement amount--Criteria--Secretary to pay balance--Time for payment--Installment payments by community. Any agreement for the payment of tuition reimbursement pursuant to §§ 1-16A-73.20 to 1-16A-73.27, inclusive, obligates the community to be served by a dentist to provide a portion of the total amount of tuition reimbursement, based on the following criteria:
(1) Communities of two thousand five hundred persons or less shall provide twenty-five percent of tuition reimbursement payments;
(2) Communities of more than two thousand five hundred persons and less than five thousand persons shall provide fifty percent of tuition reimbursement payments; and
(3) All remaining eligible communities shall provide seventy-five percent of tuition reimbursement payments.
When the community certifies to the secretary of health that it has paid the full amount for which it is obligated, the secretary of the Department of Health shall pay to the dentist the remaining balance of the total tuition reimbursement amount. The secretary shall pay the required amount out of funds appropriated by the Legislature for such purpose. Reimbursement shall be paid upon the dentist's completion of the required three-year practice period. However, a community may pay its share of tuition reimbursement in installments during the required three-year period.

Source: SL 2003, ch 12, § 5.