Each municipality may license, tax, and regulate transient merchants, auctioneers, transient, bankrupt, and auction stores, and stores of like nature, gift enterprises, and any business or vocation of like character. However, the municipality may exempt from any such licensure, taxation, or regulation a transient merchant who is retailing merchandise or products that the municipality determines to be of the person‘s own manufacture or production. This section does not apply to the distribution of any commodity from a railroad car by a cooperative association purchased in car lot for the personal use of its members.

Terms Used In South Dakota Codified Laws 9-34-7

  • Gift: A voluntary transfer or conveyance of property without consideration, or for less than full and adequate consideration based on fair market value.
  • Lot: includes parcel or tract of land. See South Dakota Codified Laws 9-1-1
  • Person: includes natural persons, partnerships, associations, cooperative corporations, limited liability companies, and corporations. See South Dakota Codified Laws 2-14-2

Source: SDC 1939, § 45.0201 (65); SL 2001, ch 48, § 1.