2-7-7. Officers to keep legislative journals--Custody and disposition of bills and documents.
It shall be the duty of the secretary of the Senate and chief clerk of the House of Representatives to keep correct journals of the proceedings of the senate and house, respectively; to have the custody of all records, accounts, and other papers committed to them and at the close of each session of the Legislature to deposit for safekeeping in the Office of the Secretary of State all books, bills, documents, resolutions, and papers in the possession of the Legislature, correctly labeled, folded, and classified, and generally to perform such duties as shall be assigned them by the senate or house, respectively; provided, such journals shall be deposited within forty days after the adjournment of the Legislature.
Source: SDC 1939, §§55.0601, 55.0602; SL 1968, ch 201, §3.
Structure South Dakota Codified Laws
Title 2 - Legislature and Statutes
Chapter 07 - Legislative Printing, Records And Journals
Section 2-7-1 - Compilation, printing, and distribution of legislative manual.
Section 2-7-3 - Contents of legislative manual.
Section 2-7-4 - Prefiled bills--Persons authorized--Rules.
Section 2-7-5 - Prefiled bills--Numbering, printing, and disposition--Introduction.
Section 2-7-6.1 - Committee introduction of bills and resolutions.
Section 2-7-10 - Permanent journals as official record of proceedings.
Section 2-7-11 - Index and distribution of journals.
Section 2-7-12 - Certified copies of journals as prima facie evidence of proceedings.
Section 2-7-17 - Certification and filing of printed bills and resolutions--Judicial notice.
Section 2-7-18 - Engrossment of bills and amendments.
Section 2-7-19 - Enrollment of bill after passage by both houses.
Section 2-7-20.1 - Certificate of conformity by Legislature in form and style.
Section 2-7-20.4 - Bills becoming law without Governor's signature or objections.