The Petroleum Release Compensation Board consists of five persons appointed by the Governor as follows: one with experience in insurance or claims adjusting; one with experience in banking or a finance related business; one engineer or one person with experience in a technical field; and two persons from the petroleum marketing industry. Not all members of the board may be of the same political party. The term of an appointment shall be five years. Two members shall originally be appointed for five years, two persons for four years and one person for three years.

All functions of the Petroleum Release Compensation Board under chapter 34A-13 are hereby transferred to the secretary of the Department of Agriculture and Natural Resources. The Petroleum Release Compensation Board shall continue as an advisory board to the secretary of the Department of Agriculture and Natural Resources as provided for by § 1-32-4.1, on issues concerning petroleum inspection and release compensation.

Terms Used In South Dakota Codified Laws 34A-13-14

  • Person: includes natural persons, partnerships, associations, cooperative corporations, limited liability companies, and corporations. See South Dakota Codified Laws 2-14-2
  • Release: is a ny unintentional spilling, leaking, emitting, discharging, escaping, leaching, or disposing of petroleum from a tank into the environment occurring in South Dakota, but does not include discharges or designed venting allowed under adopted rules or under federal or state law or discharges arising out of war, invasion, act of a foreign enemy, hostilities, revolution, earthquake, flood, or other catastrophic disaster occurring due to nature. See South Dakota Codified Laws 34A-13-1

Source: SL 1988, ch 290, § 14; SL 1995, ch 321 (Ex. Ord. 95-5), § 17; SL 2003, ch 272 (Ex. Ord. 03-1), § 31; SL 2011, ch 1 (Ex. Ord. 11-1), § 154, eff. Apr. 12, 2011; SL 2021, ch 1 (Ex. Ord. 21-3), § 53, eff. Apr. 19, 2021.

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