When the state, any state board or officer, any county, township, municipal corporation, school district, or its officers, in a purely official capacity, shall take an appeal, service and filing of the notice of appeal shall perfect the appeal and stay the execution or performance of the judgment or order appealed from and no undertaking or bond need be given, but the Supreme Court may, on motion, require security to be given in such form and manner as it shall in its discretion prescribe as a condition of the further prosecution of the appeal.

Terms Used In South Dakota Codified Laws 15-26A-38

  • Appeal: A request made after a trial, asking another court (usually the court of appeals) to decide whether the trial was conducted properly. To make such a request is "to appeal" or "to take an appeal." One who appeals is called the appellant.
  • Corporation: A legal entity owned by the holders of shares of stock that have been issued, and that can own, receive, and transfer property, and carry on business in its own name.

Source: SDC 1939 & Supp 1960, § 33.0722; SDCL, § 15-27-10; Supreme Court Rule 79-1, Rule 8 (8); SDCL Supp, § 15-26A-27.