Section 10-22-28 - Sheriff's fees and allowances--Mileage allowed by county.
10-22-28. Sheriff's fees and allowances--Mileage allowed by county. The sheriff is allowed for collecting taxes the following fees: twenty-five dollars for making the sheriff's return on the sheriff's warrant of authority; fifteen dollars for each levy; ten dollars for each sale and necessary costs of distress and sale, which fees and costs shall be collected from the tax debtor or the tax debtor's property. If actual travel is made in collecting taxes, the sheriff shall also collect from the tax debtor or the tax debtor's property an additional penalty, in lieu of mileage, equal to fifteen percent of the amount of tax and interest due, which, with all fees and costs collected, shall be credited to the general fund of the county. The sheriff shall receive from the county mileage for each mile actually and necessarily traveled at the rate provided by law. However, the sheriff is not allowed mileage for collecting taxes within the corporate limits of the county seat.
Source: SDC 1939, § 57.1018; SL 1998, ch 64, § 1.