5-29-15. State not liable for research park debts.
Nothing in this chapter authorizes the Board of Regents or any entity operating a research park under a lease, contract, or agreement with the Board of Regents to contract a debt on behalf of, or in any way to obligate, the State of South Dakota, or to pledge, assign, or encumber in any way, or to permit the pledging, assigning, or encumbering in any way, of appropriations made by the Legislature of the State of South Dakota. No debt or liability of a research park is an indebtedness, legal or moral, of the State of South Dakota, and no creditor may have recourse against the State of South Dakota or any fund created or maintained directly or indirectly from state taxation.
Source: SL 2012, ch 46, ยง15.
Structure South Dakota Codified Laws
Title 5 - Public Property, Purchases and Contracts
Section 5-29-1 - Legislative findings.
Section 5-29-3 - Research parks on state lands.
Section 5-29-4 - Accommodation of all kinds of facilities.
Section 5-29-5 - Lands subject to school and public lands trust.
Section 5-29-6 - Mineral rights.
Section 5-29-7 - Geothermal resources.
Section 5-29-8 - Structures and mineral leases may not disturb use of research park.
Section 5-29-9 - Authorized agreements.
Section 5-29-10 - Construction of agreements to permit only authorized uses.
Section 5-29-11 - Security for financing.
Section 5-29-12 - Lease period limit.
Section 5-29-13 - Commercially reasonable performance required--Enforcement and termination.
Section 5-29-14 - Title to improvements upon termination.
Section 5-29-15 - State not liable for research park debts.
Section 5-29-16 - Formation of research park corporations.
Section 5-29-17 - Board of directors appointed by Board of Regents.
Section 5-29-18 - Net earnings of research park corporation.
Section 5-29-19 - Research park corporation not a public body.
Section 5-29-21 - Research park corporation to have powers of nonprofit corporation.