South Dakota § 9-26-20 - Judgment bonds authorized without submission to election.
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§ 9-26-20. Judgment bonds authorized without submission to election.
Whenever any municipality has issued and delivered its bonds and a judgment has been regularly recovered either upon the principal or upon the defaulted coupons belonging to such bonds establishing the validity thereof in a court of competent jurisdiction of this state or of the United States, or whenever any other money judgment has been regularly recovered against a municipality upon any other claim in any such court, such municipality for the purpose of paying or compromising such judgment whenever a majority of the members of the governing body by resolution duly passed shall declare it to be for the best interest of such municipality may issue the bonds of such municipality as herein provided without submitting the matter to a vote of the voters thereof.
Source: SL 1903, ch 81; SL 1905, ch 65, § 1; RC 1919, § 6423; SDC 1939, § 45.2317; SL 1964, ch 143.
Source: official South Dakota text · Last verified 2026-08-27
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Section 9-26-20 ("Judgment bonds authorized without submission to election.") 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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