CHAPTER 77

(SB 132)

Executive session for county government revised.

         ENTITLED, An Act to  grant counties the authority to discuss certain economic development information in executive session.

BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF SOUTH DAKOTA:

     Section  1.  That § 9-34-19 be amended to read as follows:

     9-34-19.   Any documentary material or data made compiled or received by a municipal corporation, county, or an economic development corporation receiving municipal or county funds, for the purpose of furnishing assistance to a business, to the extent that such material or data consists of trade secrets or commercial or financial information regarding the operation of such business, is not a public record. Any discussion or consideration of such trade secrets or commercial or financial information by a municipal corporation or county may be done in executive session closed to the public , notwithstanding any other provisions of law .

     Signed February 25, 2004.

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