An Act to revise provisions regarding the alcohol beverage fund.
Be it enacted by the Legislature of the State of South Dakota:
Section 1. That 35-5-22.2 be AMENDED:
35-5-22.2.
Twenty-fiveFifty
percent of all
of the
revenues deposited in the alcoholic beverage fund
shall
must revert to
the counties. Twenty-five percent of the alcoholic beverage fund
distributed
reverted to
counties
shall
must be divided
equally by all counties. The remaining seventy-five percent
shall
must be
allocated to counties by the ratio of the population of each county
to the total population of all the counties sharing in the receipts.
The department shall make the reversion by remitting not later than
November first, February first, May first, and August first of each
year to the county auditor of each county its share of the fund. The
amount received by each county
pursuant to
under this
section and 35-5-25
shall
must be
deposited in the county's general fund
to be
and dedicated
to expenses related to county law enforcement, jails, state's
attorneys, public defenders, and court-appointed attorneys.