South Dakota Codified Laws
Chapter 12 - Military Equipment, Supplies And Funds
Section 33-12-20 - Suit for missing or destroyed property--Absence of fault--Release from liability.

33-12-20. Suit for missing or destroyed property--Absence of fault--Release from liability.
The Governor shall cause suit to be brought whenever necessary to make good any injury, want of repair, or loss of any quartermaster or ordnance stores or supplies or other state property. However, if any such stores or property belonging to the state are lost, destroyed, or damaged without the fault or neglect of the officer responsible for the stores or property, the officer and sureties may, by order of the Governor, on the report of a board of survey or other satisfactory proof, be relieved of all liability for the stores or property.

Source: SL 1903, ch 185, §25; SL 1917, ch 297, §27; RC 1919, §10580; SDC 1939, §41.0133; SL 2007, ch 187, §125.

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South Dakota Codified Laws

Title 33 - Military Affairs

Chapter 12 - Military Equipment, Supplies And Funds

Section 33-12-1 - Adjutant general as quartermaster general--Location of office--Expenses.

Section 33-12-2 - Quartermaster general authorized to require assistant to give bond.

Section 33-12-3 - Duties of quartermaster general.

Section 33-12-4 - Custody of flags.

Section 33-12-5 - Responsibility for equipment--Property of United States.

Section 33-12-6 - Issuance of military property to authorized persons or organizations.

Section 33-12-7 - Return of United States property to be replaced with new property--Return of surplus property.

Section 33-12-8 - Disposition of unsuitable property--Public auction or private sale--Procedure--Accounting.

Section 33-12-9 - Commanding officer as legal custodian of property--Authorization to sue for recovery.

Section 33-12-10 - Periodic return of custodial property.

Section 33-12-11 - Resignation, reassignment, dismissal, or discharge of custodial officer.

Section 33-12-12 - Death of custodial officer.

Section 33-12-16 - Inspection of issued supplies--Repairs and replacements.

Section 33-12-17 - Trafficking in property prohibited--Seizure from unauthorized person.

Section 33-12-18 - Report by disinterested officer respecting missing or destroyed property--Assessment of reasonable value and payment--Suit for recovery.

Section 33-12-19 - Board of survey respecting property losses--Notice and hearing--Appraisal and report--Payment for property--Disposition of funds.

Section 33-12-20 - Suit for missing or destroyed property--Absence of fault--Release from liability.

Section 33-12-21 - Exemption of property from taxation.

Section 33-12-23 - Unauthorized entry to remove military property--Felony.

Section 33-12-24 - Adjutant general as proper party to incur expenses.

Section 33-12-25 - Accounting of expenditures--Approval of adjutant general--Payment.

Section 33-12-26 - Accounting of expenses including pay, subsistence, and transportation--Audit and payment.

Section 33-12-27 - Military claims--Audit by adjutant general--Authorization of subordinate officers to purchase necessities--Statement to adjutant general.

Section 33-12-28 - Contracts governed by public agency procurement law--Exception for emergencies.

Section 33-12-29 - General militia fund--Expenditure procedure.

Section 33-12-30 - Special militia fund--Sources of funds.

Section 33-12-31 - Expenditures from special militia fund--Procedure--Claims payable.

Section 33-12-32 - Use of special militia fund--Appropriation.

Section 33-12-33 - Disposition of rent authorized for armory.