exempt one motor vehicle of a debtor from being taken by legal process.

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exempt one motor vehicle of a debtor from being taken by legal process.

exempt one motor vehicle of a debtor from being taken by legal process.

What This Bill Does

• exempt one motor vehicle of a debtor from being taken by legal process.
• Official keyword topics: Debtor and Creditor Property Official sponsor note: Senators <a rel="noopener" href="https://sdlegislature.gov/Legislators/Profile/4781/Detail">Larson</a> (prime), <a rel="noopener" href="https://sdlegislature.gov/Legislators/Profile/4777/Detail">Kolbeck (Steve)</a>, and <a rel="noopener" href="https://sdlegislature.gov/Legislators/Profile/4803/Detail">Pischke</a> and Representatives <a rel="noopener" href="https://sdlegislature.gov/Legislators/Profile/4749/Detail">Emery</a>, <a rel="noopener" href="https://sdlegislature.gov/Legislators/Profile/4791/Detail">Muckey</a>, and <a rel="noopener" href="https://sdlegislature.gov/Legislators/Profile/4824/Detail">Uhre-Balk</a>

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Official Summary Text

exempt one motor vehicle of a debtor from being taken by legal process.
Official keyword topics:
Debtor and Creditor
Property
Official sponsor note: Senators <a rel="noopener" href="https://sdlegislature.gov/Legislators/Profile/4781/Detail">Larson</a> (prime), <a rel="noopener" href="https://sdlegislature.gov/Legislators/Profile/4777/Detail">Kolbeck (Steve)</a>, and <a rel="noopener" href="https://sdlegislature.gov/Legislators/Profile/4803/Detail">Pischke</a> and Representatives <a rel="noopener" href="https://sdlegislature.gov/Legislators/Profile/4749/Detail">Emery</a>, <a rel="noopener" href="https://sdlegislature.gov/Legislators/Profile/4791/Detail">Muckey</a>, and <a rel="noopener" href="https://sdlegislature.gov/Legislators/Profile/4824/Detail">Uhre-Balk</a>

Current Bill Text

26.447.17 101st Legislative Session 150

2026 South Dakota Legislature
Senate Bill 150
SENATE JUDICIARY ENGROSSED

This bill has been extensively amended (hoghoused) and may no longer be
consistent with the original intention of the sponsor.

Introduced by: Senator Larson

Underscores indicate new language.
Overstrikes indicate deleted language.
An Act to exempt one motor vehicle of a debtor from being taken by legal process. 1
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF SOUTH DAKOTA: 2
Section 1. That § 43-45-2 be AMENDED: 3
43-45-2. The Except as otherwise provided by law, the following property 4
mentioned in this section is absolutely exempt from all such process, any levy, process, 5
or sale, except as otherwise provided by law: 6
(1) All of the debtor's family pictures; 7
(2) A pew or other sitting seating in any house of worship; 8
(3) A lot or lots in any burial ground; 9
(4) The debtor's family Bible and all schoolbooks used by the family, and all other 10
books used as a part of the family library, not exceeding in value two hundred 11
dollars in value; 12
(5) All wearing apparel and clothing of the debtor and his the debtor's family; 13
(6) The provisions for the debtor and his the debtor's family necessary for one year's 14
supply, either provided or growing, or both, and fuel necessary for one year; 15
(7) All property in this state of the judgment debtor if the there is a judgment is against 16
the debtor in favor of any state for failure to pay that state's income tax on benefits 17
received from a pension or other retirement plan while the judgment debtor was a 18
resident of this state; 19
(8) Any health aids aid professionally prescribed to the debtor or to a dependant a 20
dependent of the debtor; 21
(9) Any court ordered domestic support award of alimony, maintenance, or other 22
support of the debtor, which is not a gross or lump sum and does not exceed seven 23
hundred fifty dollars per month; and 24
(10) A debtor's interest in one motor vehicle, as defined in § 32-5-1, not to exceed five 25
thousand dollars in value over any security interests and liens upon the vehicle . 26