Section 9-8-5 - Power of council to judge members and govern proceedings--Bribery vacating office. - South Dakota Statutes

9-8-5. Power of council to judge members and govern proceedings--Bribery vacating office. The council shall be the judge of the election and qualification of its own members. It shall determine its own rules of procedure, punish its members for disorderly conduct, and, with the concurrence of two-thirds of the aldermen elected thereto, may expel a member.
Any alderman who shall have been convicted of bribery shall thereby vacate his office.

Source: SL 1890, ch 37, art IV, §§ 6, 7; RPolC 1903, §§ 1203, 1204; RC 1919, § 6210; SDC 1939, § 45.0704.