South Dakota Codified Laws
Chapter 16 - Codes And Compilations
Section 2-16-9 - Arrangement, correlation, and text changes in code.

2-16-9. Arrangement, correlation, and text changes in code.
The South Dakota Code Commission is hereby authorized to make such changes as may be necessary to correct apparent errors, to correlate and integrate all the laws to harmonize, to assign new title and other designations, to eliminate or clarify obviously obsolete or ambiguous sections that exist, and to substitute terms or phraseology, and names of boards, commissions, and agencies, wherever the Legislature has expressly or by implication indicated an intention to do so, so as to provide consistency in the law.

Source: SL 1966, ch 239, ยง4 (4); SL 1967, ch 265.

Structure South Dakota Codified Laws

South Dakota Codified Laws

Title 2 - Legislature and Statutes

Chapter 16 - Codes And Compilations

Section 2-16-3 - Code Commission established--Composition and appointment of members--Vacancies.

Section 2-16-4.2 - Officers of commission--Meetings and hearings.

Section 2-16-5 - Compensation of commission members--Employment of personnel and incurring of expense.

Section 2-16-5.1 - Gifts and contributions to commission--Expenditure.

Section 2-16-5.2 - Assistance, space, and facilities for commission.

Section 2-16-6 - Supplements and reprinted volumes to be provided for--Contents.

Section 2-16-7 - Specifications, advertising and award of contract for publication.

Section 2-16-7.1 - Continuation of contract with publisher of code.

Section 2-16-7.2 - Advertising for bids for publications.

Section 2-16-8 - Copyrights of material--Contract for use of state's copyright.

Section 2-16-8.1 - Restriction on printing or distributing copyrighted material in code--Violation as misdemeanor.

Section 2-16-9 - Arrangement, correlation, and text changes in code.

Section 2-16-9.1 - Continuing authority of commission on assimilation of laws into code.

Section 2-16-10.1 - Additional powers of commission.

Section 2-16-10.2 - South Dakota Codified Laws provided to Legislature--Codified Laws and Administrative Rules provided to legislators.

Section 2-16-12 - Supplements and revised volumes official after publication--Prima facie evidence of law--Citation.

Section 2-16-13 - Publications constituting official code.

Section 2-16-13.1 - Editorial material and appendices excluded from official code.

Section 2-16-14 - Code as continuation of prior law.

Section 2-16-15 - Invalid laws not validated by codification.

Section 2-16-16 - Statutes enacted at latest legislative session prevail over code--Citation of codified laws.

Section 2-16-17 - Official copy of code of laws--Certification.

Section 2-16-18 - Citation of code.

Section 2-16-19 - Publication of code on computer media.