South Dakota § 3-23-6 - School districts and cooperative education service units--Officials with contract authority--Prohibitions on interest in or direct benefit from contract.
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§ 3-23-6. School districts and cooperative education service units--Officials with contract authority--Prohibitions on interest in or direct benefit from contract.
No board member, business manager, chief financial officer, superintendent, chief executive officer, or other person with the authority to enter into a contract or spend money in an amount greater than five thousand dollars of a school district, cooperative education service unit, or jointly governed education service entity that receives money from or through the state may have an interest in a contract nor receive a direct benefit from a contract in amount greater than five thousand dollars or multiple contracts in an amount greater than five thousand dollars with the same party within a twelve-month period to which the school district or cooperative education service unit is a party except as provided in § 3-23-8.
Source: SL 2016, ch 33, § 6; SL 2017, ch 31, § 10; SL 2017, ch 74, § 1; SL 2021, ch 73, § 23.
Source: official South Dakota text · Last verified 2026-08-27
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Section 3-23-6 ("School districts and cooperative education service units--Officials with contract authority--Prohibitions on interest in or direct benefit from contract.") is part of the South Dakota Codified Laws, the codified statutory law of South Dakota. It sets out the legal rule or procedure described in the text above. Statutes are amended regularly, so always verify against the official source.
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