Section 24-7-19 - Employment of special assistant attorney--Compensation and expenses--Approvalby attorney general and secretary--Maximum amount.
24-7-19. Employment of special assistant attorney--Compensation and expenses--Approval by attorney general and secretary--Maximum amount. The attorney general may employ such special assistant attorney or collector as may be necessary to collect any delinquent accounts of the prison industries and to pay such special assistant attorney or collector on a salary, fee, or contingent fee basis as the attorney general may deem best. All of such expense, including filing fees, sheriff's fees, court costs, traveling, expenses, and other necessary expenses of collection, shall be paid out of the sums collected, or out of the prison industries revolving fund on itemized claims approved by the attorney general and the secretary of corrections; but the amount expended for such purposes from the prison industries funds may not exceed the sum of five hundred dollars.
Source: SDC 1939, § 13.4802 as added by SL 1941, ch 48, § 1; SL 1947, ch 265, § 5; SDC Supp 1960, § 13.47A05; SL 1989, ch 20, § 137; SL 2004, ch 168, § 32.