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[CITE: 28USC122]

 
               TITLE 28--JUDICIARY AND JUDICIAL PROCEDURE
 
                     PART I--ORGANIZATION OF COURTS
 
                       CHAPTER 5--DISTRICT COURTS
 
Sec. 122. South Dakota

    South Dakota constitutes one judicial district comprising four 
divisions.

           (1) The Northern Division comprises the counties of Brown, 
                Campbell, Clark, Codington, Corson, Day, Deuel, Edmonds, 
                Grant, Hamlin, McPherson, Marshall, Roberts, Spink, and 
                                        Walworth.

           Court for the Northern Division shall be held at Aberdeen.

          (2) The Southern Division comprises the counties of Aurora, 
                Beadle, Bon Homme, Brookings, Brule, Charles Mix, Clay, 
                 Davison, Douglas, Hanson, Hutchinson, Kingsbury, Lake, 
                   Lincoln, McCook, Miner, Minnehaha, Moody, Sanborn, 
                               Turner, Union, and Yankton.

          Court for the Southern Division shall be held at Sioux Falls.

          (3) The central division comprises the counties of Buffalo, 
                   Dewey, Faulk, Gregory, Haakon, Hand, Hughes, Hyde, 
                Jerauld, Jones, Lyman, Mellette, Potter, Stanley, Sully, 
                                Todd, Tripp, and Ziebach.

             Court for the Central Division shall be held at Pierre.

          (4) The Western Division comprises the counties of Bennett, 
                 Butte, Custer, Fall River, Harding, Jackson, Lawrence, 
                        Meade, Pennington, Perkins, and Shannon.

          Court for the Western Division shall be held at Deadwood and 
                                       Rapid City.

(June 25, 1948, ch. 646, 62 Stat. 889; Pub. L. 89-638, Oct. 10, 1966, 80 
Stat. 883; Pub. L. 92-376, Aug. 10, 1972, 86 Stat. 529; Pub. L. 101-650, 
title III, Sec. 324(b), Dec. 1, 1990, 104 Stat. 5120.)


                      Historical and Revision Notes

    Based on title 28, U.S.C., 1940 ed., Sec. 187 (Mar. 3, 1911, ch. 
231, Sec. 106, 36 Stat. 1123; June 11, 1932, ch. 242, 47 Stat. 300).
    A provision relating to maintenance of offices by the clerk was 
omitted as covered by sections 452 and 751 of this title.
    Provisions that the Northern Division included Lake Traverse Indian 
Reservation and that part of Standing Rock Indian Reservation lying in 
South Dakota; that the Southern Division included the Yorkton Indian 
Reservation; that the Central Division included the Cheyenne River, 
Lower Brule, and Crow Creek Indian Reservations; and that the Western 
Division included Rosebud and Pine Ridge Indian Reservations, were all 
omitted as surplusage. (See Reviser's Note under section 114 of this 
title.)
    Changes in arrangement and phraseology were made.


                               Amendments

    1990--Par. (3). Pub. L. 101-650, Sec. 324(b)(1), struck out 
``Jackson,'' after ``Hyde,''.
    Par. (4). Pub. L. 101-650, Sec. 324(b)(2), inserted ``Jackson,'' 
after ``Harding,'' and substituted ``and Shannon'' for ``Shannon, 
Washabaugh, and Washington''.
    1972--Par. (2). Pub. L. 92-376, Sec. 1(a), removed Gregory County 
from the Southern Division.
    Par. (3). Pub. L. 92-376, Sec. 1(b), added Gregory, Mellette, Todd, 
and Tripp counties to the Central Division and removed Armstrong county 
from the Central Division.
    Par. (4). Pub. L. 92-376, Sec. 1(c), removed Mellette, Todd, and 
Tripp counties from the Western Division.
    1966--Pub. L. 89-638 provided for holding court at Rapid City.
