CSC South Dakota Laws Governing Business Entities & Trusts Annotated

An essential resource for attorneys nationwide looking to create or manage a trust or business entity in South Dakota

Publisher: CSC

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Print Book: 1-Volume Softbound 2026 Edition Includes Downloadable Content: zip
$169.00
Preorder ISBN: 9798341730465 Estimated: October 23, 2026

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South Dakota has been consistently considered by many commentators and planners to be the best trust jurisdiction in the nation because of its cutting-edge laws around asset protection, dynasty trusts and directed trusts, and privacy. This first-of-its-kind deskbook offers attorneys across the nation a curated collection of all current South Dakota state laws relating to trusts and business organizations so they can conduct research more effectively, complete transactions more efficiently, and advise their clients with confidence. 

FEATURES

  • Full text of Title 47—Corporations and Title 48—Partnerships, selected chapters from Title 51A—Banks and Banking dealing with trusts, and the full text of Title 55—Fiduciaries and Trusts from the LexisNexis South Dakota Codified Laws, as well as selected sections from related titles covering taxation, trademarks, and civil procedure, along with Articles, 1, 8, 9, and 12A from the Uniform Commercial Code
  • Updated through the 2026 General Session of the South Dakota Legislative Assembly—more than a dozen sections added or amended since the 2025 edition, including new rules for the creation of limitedliability limited partnerships (LLLPs) and revised provisions related to trusts.
  • Our Legislative Analysis briefly summarizes the effects of the new legislation
  • Fully annotated with the latest case notes from courts interpreting the law
  • Easy-to-reference Fee Schedule showing the Secretary of State's required filing fees for various business services and business trusts
  • Online access to more than 60 forms for South Dakota business trusts and other business entity incorporation/formation, qualification, mergers, dissolution, and name reservation

The 2025 ISBN was 9781663398888.

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Pub Number: 25103

Acknowledgments 
About the Senior Legal Advisor to CSC Publishing 
Table of Sections Affected by 2025 Legislation
Table of New Annotations 
Analysis of Selected 2025 South Dakota Legislative Changes Affecting Business Entity & Trust Laws
South Dakota Fee Schedule

 Title 47.  Corporations 
        Chapter 1.  General Supervision of Corporations 
        Chapter 1A.  South Dakota Business Corporation Act 
        Chapter 9A.  Corporate Farming Restrictions 
        Chapter 10.  Business Development Credit Corporations 
        Chapter 11.  Medical Corporations 
        Chapter 11A.  Chiropractic Corporations 
        Chapter 11B.  Optometric Corporations 
        Chapter 11C.  Podiatric Corporations 
        Chapter 11D.  Physician's Assistants Corporations 
        Chapter 11E.  Nursing Corporations 
        Chapter 11F.  Health Care Corporations, Limited Liability Companies and Limited 
        Liability Partnerships 
        Chapter 11G.  Physical Therapy, Occupational Therapy, And Speech-Language 
        Pathology Corporations 
        Chapter 12.  Dental Corporations 
        Chapter 13.  Veterinary Corporations 
        Chapter 13A.  Professional Corporations for The Practice of Law 
        Chapter 13B.  Professional Corporations for The Practice of Public Accounting 
        Chapter 14A.  South Dakota Business Trust Act 
        Chapter 14B.  South Dakota Foreign Business Trust Act 
        Chapter 15.  Cooperatives — Formation and General Powers 
        Chapter 16.  Cooperatives — Membership, Stock and Distributions 
        Chapter 17.  Cooperatives — Directors, Officers and Employees 
        Chapter 18.  Cooperatives — Reorganization and Dissolution 
        Chapter 19.  Foreign Cooperatives 
        Chapter 20.  Cooperatives — Records, Accounts and Reports 
        Chapter 21.  Rural Electric Cooperatives 
        Chapter 22.  Nonprofit Corporations — Formation and General Powers 
        Chapter 23.  Nonprofit Corporations — Members, Directors, Officers and Agents 
        Chapter 24.  Nonprofit Corporations — Records, Fiscal Affairs and Reports 
        Chapter 25.  Nonprofit Corporations — Reorganization 
        Chapter 25A.  Nonprofit Corporations — Domestication and Conversion 
        Chapter 26.  Nonprofit Corporations — Dissolution and Liquidation 
        Chapter 27.  Foreign Nonprofit Corporations 
        Chapter 28.  Nonprofit Corporations — Supervision by Secretary of State 
        Chapter 29.  Cemetery Corporations 
        Chapter 30.  Corporate Frauds and Mismanagement 
        Chapter 31B.  Uniform Securities Act Of 2002 
        Chapter 33.  South Dakota Domestic Public Corporation Takeover Act 
        Chapter 34A.  Uniform Limited Liability Company Act 
 
 Title 48.  Partnerships 
        Chapter 7.  Uniform Limited Partnership Act 
        Chapter 7A.  Uniform Partnership Act 
 
 Title 51A.  Banks and Banking [selected chapters] 
        Chapter 5.  Trust Business of Banks 
        Chapter 6.  Trust Companies 
        Chapter 6A.  Creation of Trust Companies 
        Chapter 9.  Bank Service Corporations 
 
 Title 55.  Fiduciaries and Trusts 
        Chapter 1.  Classification And Creation of Trusts 
        Chapter 1A.  Trustees Powers 
        Chapter 1B.  Directed Trusts 
        Chapter 2.  Duties And Liabilities of Trustees 
        Chapter 3.  Express Trusts for Third Party Beneficiaries 
        Chapter 4.  Uniform Trusts Act 
        Chapter 5.  Investment And Management Powers of Fiduciaries 
        Chapter 5A.  Powers of Foreign Fiduciaries 
        Chapter 6.  Common Trust Funds and Collective Investment Funds 
        Chapter 7.  Third Party Responsibility for Fiduciary Acts 
        Chapter 8.  Registration and Transfer of Securities Held by Fiduciaries 
        Chapter 9.  Charitable Trusts 
        Chapter 10A.  Uniform Transfers to Minors Act 
        Chapter 11.  Prearranged Funeral Trusts 
        Chapter 12.  Cemetery Perpetual Care Funds 
        Chapter 13.  Revised Uniform Principal and Income Act 
        Chapter 13A.  Uniform Principal and Income Act 
        Chapter 14A.  Uniform Prudent Management of Institutional Funds Act 
        Chapter 15.  Total Return Unitrusts 
        Chapter 16.  Qualified Dispositions in Trust 
        Chapter 17.  Special Spousal Trusts 
        Chapter 18.  Virtual Representation 
        Chapter 19.  Uniform Fiduciary Access to Digital Assets Act 
 
 Title 10.  Taxation 
        Chapter 43.  Income Tax on Banks and Financial Corporations 
 
 Title 15.  Civil Procedure 
        Chapter 2.  Limitation Of Actions Generally [selected sections] 
        Chapter 6.  Rules Of Procedure in Circuit Courts [selected sections] 
        Chapter 9.  Commencement Of Actions and Service of Process [selected sections] 
        Chapter 17.  Recovery of Disbursements [selected section] 
 
 Title 37.  Trade Regulation 
        Chapter 6.  Trademark And Service Mark Protection 
 
 Title 57A.  Uniform Commercial Code 
        Chapter 1.  General Provisions 
        Chapter 8.  Investment Securities 
        Chapter 9.  Secured Transactions
        Chapter 12. The Controllable Electronic Records
        Chapter 13. The Transitional Provisions for Uniform Commercial Code Amendments 
 
 Appendix:  Listing of South Dakota Business Entity Forms 
 Index 
  

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