South Dakota Codified Laws 15-39-52. Entry fee–Summons not required–Statement to clerk or magistrate in lieu of pleading–Fee exemption
The procedure shall include the beginning of actions with an entry fee of four dollars for actions up to one hundred dollars, ten dollars for actions up to one thousand dollars, and twenty dollars for actions over one thousand dollars, but without summons, and without requirement, except by special order of the magistrate or court, of other pleading than the written and signed statement to the clerk of courts, or magistrate. No fee may be required of the state, its officers, boards, agencies and commissions, or its political subdivisions, in any action commenced by the state or a political subdivision.
Terms Used In South Dakota Codified Laws 15-39-52
- Summons: Another word for subpoena used by the criminal justice system.
- written: include typewriting and typewritten, printing and printed, except in the case of signatures, and where the words are used by way of contrast to typewriting and printing. See South Dakota Codified Laws 2-14-2
Source: SDC 1939 & Supp 1960, § 33.4101; SL 1961, ch 181; SDCL, § 15-39-5; SL 1977, ch 173, § 1; Supreme Court Rule 81-4; SL 1984, ch 148, § 1.