5-24-6. Civil liability of officer for failure to account for property.
If an officer or employee disposes of personal property without complying with the requirements of this chapter, the officer or employee, in addition to the penal penalty prescribed by law, is liable for the value thereof as shown by the last preceding inventory, to be recovered in a civil suit.
Source: SL 1913, ch 293, §9; RC 1919, §7056; SDC 1939, §48.0506; SL 2011, ch 2, §89.
Structure South Dakota Codified Laws
Title 5 - Public Property, Purchases and Contracts
Chapter 24 - Receipt, Care And Accounting For Public Property
Section 5-24-1 - Annual inventory of personal property required of local officers and employees.
Section 5-24-1.1 - Inventory of state personal property required.
Section 5-24-2 - Cost or value to be shown in inventory--Filing.
Section 5-24-3 - Place of filing of duplicate inventories.
Section 5-24-4 - Purchased property to be noted in inventory report.
Section 5-24-5 - Lost or destroyed property to be noted in inventory--Date and circumstances shown.
Section 5-24-6 - Civil liability of officer for failure to account for property.
Section 5-24-7 - Delivery of public property to successor in office--Receipt.
Section 5-24-8 - Failure to account for public property as misdemeanor.
Section 5-24-12 - Acceptance of gifts to state--Actions for recovery.
Section 5-24-13 - Acceptance and distribution of federal surplus property--Records.
Section 5-24-14 - Property management internal service fund.
Section 5-24-15 - Transfer of property from Homestake Mining Company authorized.