Section 7-12-20 - Endorsement of fees for service of process for state or county--Fees not required ofcounty. - South Dakota Statutes

7-12-20. Endorsement of fees for service of process for state or county--Fees not required of county. If any sheriff or other officer serves any summons, subpoena, bench warrant, venire, or other process in any action to which the state is a party, the officer shall be required to endorse upon the writ or process or upon a paper attached thereto, at the time he makes his return of service thereon, a statement of his fees for the service, the number of miles traveled, and the amount of his mileage; and in case he shall fail to make his return with the statement and file the same with the clerk of the court from which the process issued, before judgment shall be pronounced in the action to which the process relates, he shall receive no fees for the service, and the county commissioners of the county where the service is performed are prohibited from allowing the same. No fee may be required of a county, its officers or board of county commissioners in any action commenced by the county.

Source: SL 1883, ch 54, § 1; CL 1887, § 1413; RPolC 1903, § 1834; RC 1919, § 5959; SDC 1939, § 12.1005; SL 1984, ch 161, § 6.