CHAPTER 113

(HB 1063)

Warrant or summons on an indictment, authority to issue clarified.

         ENTITLED, An Act to  clarify certain provisions concerning the authority of certain courts to issue warrants or summonses on indictment.

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

     Section  1.  That § 16-12C-7 be amended to read as follows:

     16-12C-7.   A magistrate court with a clerk magistrate presiding has concurrent jurisdiction with the circuit courts to issue summonses, warrants of arrest, and warrants for searches and seizures , but not to issue warrants or summonses on indictment .

     Signed February 3, 2006

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