Section 15-15-2 - Clerk or judge to keep minutes in absence of reporter--Computer record. - South Dakota Statutes

15-15-2. Clerk or judge to keep minutes in absence of reporter--Computer record. If there is no court reporter making such record, the clerk of the court shall keep full and accurate minutes of all such matters as referred to in § 15-15-1 and rulings thereon. In the absence of both reporter and clerk, the judge shall preserve the minutes of the proceedings. If the record of the court action is kept by an automated process, the computer record shall constitute the minutes of the court.

Source: SDC 1939 & Supp 1960, § 33.1601; SL 1991, ch 167.