South Dakota Codified Laws
Chapter 21 - Amercement Of Officers
Section 15-21-2 - Amercement of clerk for failure to pay over money received.

15-21-2. Amercement of clerk for failure to pay over money received.
If any clerk of a court shall neglect or refuse on demand made by the person entitled thereto, his agent, or attorney of record, to pay over all money by him received in his official capacity for the use of such person, every such clerk may be amerced; and the proceedings against him and his sureties shall be the same as provided for in §15-21-1, against sheriffs and their sureties.

Source: SDC 1939 & Supp 1960, §33.2502.

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South Dakota Codified Laws

Title 15 - Civil Procedure

Chapter 21 - Amercement Of Officers

Section 15-21-1 - Grounds for amercement of officer directed to execute writ--Amount of amercement.

Section 15-21-2 - Amercement of clerk for failure to pay over money received.

Section 15-21-3 - Notice of amercement given to officer of county other than that from which execution issued.

Section 15-21-4 - Amount of amercement on refusal to pay over money collected.

Section 15-21-5 - Entry of amercements on court record--Effect as judgment.

Section 15-21-6 - Action joining officer's surety as party to judgment--Officer's property applied first.

Section 15-21-7 - Amercement alternative to other remedies.

Section 15-21-8 - Subrogation of officer after amercement.