Unless specially and expressly authorized by law, it shall be unlawful for the board of county commissioners or any member thereof, or for any officer of any county or any employee thereof in charge of any institution or agency of a county, to contract any indebtedness or incur any liabilities for or in behalf of the county, in any manner whatsoever, either for a purpose, object, or item for which no appropriation is provided in the budget of such county for the fiscal year in which such indebtedness is attempted to be contracted or liability attempted to be created, or in excess of the amount of any specific appropriation for any purpose, object, or item set forth in the budgets of such county, for the fiscal year in which such indebtedness is attempted to be contracted or liability attempted to be created.

Terms Used In South Dakota Codified Laws 7-21-25

  • Appropriation: The provision of funds, through an annual appropriations act or a permanent law, for federal agencies to make payments out of the Treasury for specified purposes. The formal federal spending process consists of two sequential steps: authorization
  • Contract: A legal written agreement that becomes binding when signed.
  • Fiscal year: The fiscal year is the accounting period for the government. For the federal government, this begins on October 1 and ends on September 30. The fiscal year is designated by the calendar year in which it ends; for example, fiscal year 2006 begins on October 1, 2005 and ends on September 30, 2006.
  • Liabilities: The aggregate of all debts and other legal obligations of a particular person or legal entity.

Source: SDC 1939, § 12.2020; SL 1995, ch 7, § 2.

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