Section 7-16-21 - Deposit and accounting for fines, penalties, and costs received--Failure to account astheft. - South Dakota Statutes

7-16-21. Deposit and accounting for fines, penalties, and costs received--Failure to account as theft. The state's attorney shall pay over to the county treasurer all money he may receive as such state's attorney within ten days after he receives it and shall file with the county auditor a complete list of the amount so paid showing all fees and costs received in civil actions in which the county is the successful party, as well as all fines, recognizances, forfeitures, penalties, or costs received by him, specifying in each instance the name of each person from whom he may have received such money, the particular amount paid by each person, and the cause for which each payment was made. A state's attorney who neglects to account for or pay over the money received by him as required by this section is guilty of theft.

Source: SL 1883, ch 43, §§ 9, 10; SL 1885, ch 45, § 1; CL 1887, §§ 431, 436, 437; SL 1889, ch 60, § 3; RPolC 1903, §§ 937, 939, 940, 945; RC 1919, §§ 6009, 6010; SDC 1939, §§ 12.1308, 12.9913; SL 1981, ch 43, § 7.