South Dakota -- Attorney General

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Administrative rules, as proposed and corrected, correspondence, and related material generated by the attorney general and his staff for the time period, 1976-1978. Rules organized by department.

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This series contains the official opinions issued in 1973 by the Attorney General and Supreme Court on issues related to government reorganization.

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Contains copies of official opinions of the Office of the Attorney General concerning legal matters related to the administrative activities of the South Dakota Board of Regents between 1977 and 1978.

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This series consists of three signed copies of Attorney General Buell F. Jones’s petition and argument for additional office space in the Capitol Building.

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These series contains audit reports on constitutional officers and state agencies from 1944 to 1985. Audit reports contain financial statements on an office's receipts, expenditures, and administrative costs; commentary on recordkeeping practices; and suggestions for improving those procedures.

Scope and Contents Consists of records documenting complaints filed with the Division of Consumer Protection between 1969 and 1974 regarding consumer products and services. The records in this series were maintained by the division for the purpose of investigating deceptive or misleading business/trade practices, taking necessary legal action on behalf of the State of South Dakota, and/or referring cases with multi-jurisdictional relevance to federal law enforcement agencies and to agencies in other states....

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Departmental and Chronological Correspondence consists largely of outgoing correspondence of the Attorney General and staff. Correspondence with State agencies is filed by department name within the chronology. Intended arrangement chronological by date of correspondence. Documents are in reverse chronological order within clasp binders.

Scope and Contents Division Histories & Programs Descriptions includes fives files, “The Historical Development of the Division of Criminal Investigation,” “History of South Dakota Division of Criminal Investigation Identification, Statistics & Communications,” “Radio Broadcasting Authorized”, Laboratory facilities, and “Division of Criminal Investigation, Attorney General Office, State of South Dakota” that describe and justify the division of Criminal Investigation’s purpose, history and programs....

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This series contains sixteen folders of correspondence between private citizens, businesses, and lawmakers regarding taxation laws.

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This series contains sixteen folders of correspondence between private citizens, businesses, and lawmakers regarding taxation laws.

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Contains official opinions issued by the McCook County States Attorney and the South Dakota Attorney General between 1889 and 1959 concerning legal matters in the county. The opinions were issued in the form of memoranda and correspondence between the States Attorney, the Office of the Attorney General, county officials (including the Auditor, Treasurer, and County Board of Commissioners), and private entities and individuals.

Scope and Contents This series contains the records and correspondence of the South Dakota State Ethics Commission for the years 1975 to 1979 and includes annual reports to the Governor; appointment records; meeting agendas and minutes; case files containing formal complaints filed with the commission and subsequent advisory opinions delivered by the commission; correspondence with the state attorney general concerning political candidates and campaign committees; committee rules hearing records; and...

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Report produced by the Commission on Salaries of Elective State Officials in 1977.

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This series consists of transcripts of court proceedings, documents produced as evidence, an exhibit, which included maps of the affected areas within certain counties, and correspondence for the State of South Dakota V. Milwaukee Railroad Bankruptcy Case and the USA V. Fall River County et al. Case. Both case files are divided into three accordion folders that appear to proceed in a mainly chronological fashion.

Scope and Contents Background information and transcripts of proceedings resulting from the June 1973 Custer County Court House riot in which Banks was charged with inciting a riot & arson including the subsequent extradition proceedings that involved California Governor Edmund G. Brown. Also includes newspapers, Division of Criminal Investigation Agents account of the incident & State Radio account. 1983 correspondence between Attorney General Mark V. Mierhenry & Assistant Attorney General Dennis...

Scope and Contents Subject Correspondence Files consists of correspondence, staff memos and attachments thereto from and to the Office of the Attorney. Current arrangement is roughly chronological by year of correspondence; alphabetical by surname of non-AG correspondent or subject of correspondence; thereunder in reverse chronological order by date of correspondence. There is more than one alphabetical “run”. The files were known in the office of origin as “General Files.” Most of the files are dated from...

Scope and Contents Consists of subject and correspondence files maintained by the Department of Transportation (formerly Department of Highways) Division of Administration between 1944 and 1978 and includes correspondence and memoranda (including copies of correspondence to and from Governors Richard F. Kneip and Harvey L. Wollman concerning state and federal transportation matters), District Engineers and Highway Research Review Board meeting minutes, reports, city and county maps, photographs, legal...