7-25-17. Rental space provided county officers where courthouse or jail insufficient.In any county where there is no courthouse or jail erected by the county, or no lodging for prisoners provided under a joint agreement pursuant to §24-11-4, or where those erected have not sufficient capacity, it shall be the duty of the board of county commissioners to provide for courtroom, jail, and offices for the following named officers: sheriff, treasurer, register of deeds, state's attorney, auditor, clerk of courts, and circuit court judge for the county, to be furnished by such county in a suitable building or buildings for the lowest rent to be obtained at the county seat, or to secure and occupy suitable rooms at a free rent within the limits of the county seat or any of the additions thereto until such county builds a courthouse. Source: SL 1874-5, ch 27, §26; PolC 1877, ch 21, §42; SL 1885, ch 41, §1; CL 1887, §606; RPolC 1903, §846; RC 1919, §5882; SDC 1939, §12.2301; SL 1971, ch 52.
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