§ 7-24-19 — Deposit and investment of debt service fund moneys--Resolution of county commissioners.

South Dakota § 7-24-19

• Jurisdiction: South Dakota
• Title 7: COUNTIES
• Ch. 7-24: COUNTY BONDS

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Every county maintaining a debt service fund for the payment of outstanding bonds shall keep the accumulations in said debt service fund deposited with the lawful depositories or invested in registered warrants or bonds of any municipal or public corporation of the State of South Dakota, including those of the county issuing such bonds, or bonds, notes, or other obligations issued by any federal land bank, federal intermediate credit bank, bank for cooperatives, or any or all of the federal farm credit banks, or obligations of the United States, or bonds or securities of any kind issued by the State of South Dakota, and the interest accruing on such investment shall be credited to such debt service fund. Moneys in any debt service fund shall be invested only in such of the above - named securities as will become due and payable on or before the date when the bonds for the payment of which such debt service fund was created become due and payable, except bonds of the United States or of the State of South Dakota. Where such debt service fund is invested in other bonds of such county, there shall be a levy of a tax upon the taxable property of such county of sufficient amount to pay the interest and also the principal thereof when due and such tax, when collected, shall be returned to the debt service fund for that purpose. In carrying out the provisions of this section, all transactions shall be by resolution of the board of county commissioners which resolution shall be regularly filed and recorded with the county auditor as a public record.

Legislative History

SL 1915, ch 277; RC 1919, § 6999; SL 1933, ch 164; SDC 1939, § 12.2111; SL 1979, ch 37, § 2.