AN ACT

        ENTITLED, An Act to permit the Department of Public Safety to require certain accident reports to be filed by electronic means.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF SOUTH DAKOTA:
    Section 1. That § 32-34-10 be amended to read as follows:
    32-34-10. Each law enforcement officer or other person assigned by a law enforcement agency to investigate traffic accidents shall, after receiving notice that an accident described in § 32-34-7 occurred, cause a notice to be affixed in a manner prescribed by the secretary of public safety to the vehicle damaged, indicating that the accident has been reported and the circumstances surrounding the accident are being investigated. The law enforcement officer or other person assigned by a law enforcement agency to investigate traffic accidents shall forward to the Department of Public Safety, within three days after completion of the investigation of the accident, an investigator's report of the accident so reported. After July 1, 2013, any law enforcement officer or other person assigned by a law enforcement agency to investigate traffic accidents and complete a report pursuant to § 32-34-7 is required to file the report by electronic means with the department if the submissions pursuant to § 32-34-7 for that law enforcement agency total more than sixty reports during the prior calendar year.
An Act to permit the Department of Public Safety to require certain accident reports to be filed by electronic means.

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I certify that the attached Act originated in the

SENATE as Bill No. 53

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Secretary of the Senate
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President of the Senate

Attest:

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Secretary of the Senate

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Speaker of the House

Attest:

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Chief Clerk

Senate Bill No. 53
File No. ____
Chapter No. ______  
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Received at this Executive Office this _____ day of _____________ ,

20____ at ____________ M.


By _________________________
for the Governor
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The attached Act is hereby approved this ________ day of ______________ , A.D., 20___

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Governor
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STATE OF SOUTH DAKOTA,
ss.
Office of the Secretary of State

Filed ____________ , 20___
at _________ o'clock __ M.

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Secretary of State

By _________________________
Asst. Secretary of State