South Dakota § 2-16-9 - Arrangement, correlation, and text changes in code.
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§ 2-16-9. Arrangement, correlation, and text changes in code.
The South Dakota Code Commission is hereby authorized to make such changes as may be necessary to correct apparent errors, to correlate and integrate all the laws to harmonize, to assign new title and other designations, to eliminate or clarify obviously obsolete or ambiguous sections that exist, and to substitute terms or phraseology, and names of boards, commissions, and agencies, wherever the Legislature has expressly or by implication indicated an intention to do so, so as to provide consistency in the law.
Source: SL 1966, ch 239, § 4 (4); SL 1967, ch 265.
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