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Sioux Falls Area Humane Society at capacity, not accepting surrenders
SIOUX FALLS, S.D. (Dakota News Now) – The Sioux Falls Area Humane Society says they are no longer accepting owner surrenders at this time due to the shelter being at capacity.
In a post on social media, SFAHS wrote that the decision will help ensures current pets at the shelter receive the care and attention necessary.
The shelter said it will continue to accept strays.
Visit sfhumanesociety.com to view adoptable pets.
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Obituary for Ashlyn Jean Barse at Kinkade Funeral Chapel
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South Dakota Supreme Court denies bid to exclude ballots initially rejected from June election
PIERRE, S.D. — The South Dakota Supreme Court has rejected an effort to exclude more than 100 absentee ballots that had initially been rejected but were later counted in the state’s June election.
The leader of a conservative election group and an unsuccessful Republican legislative candidate asked the court last month to order the top election official in Minnehaha County, home to Sioux Falls, to “revert to the unofficial vote count totals” without the 132 ballots, and “to conduct a thorough review” of registered voters in two precincts, among other requests.
The court on Friday denied the pair’s request, meaning the ballots, which a recount board later included, will stand.
In June, South Dakota Canvassing President Jessica Pollema had challenged ballots in the two precincts. She alleged that voter registration forms were either incomplete or listed addresses that weren’t where voters actually lived, in violation of state and federal law. One precinct board denied her challenge. The other, in a legislative district represented by all Democrats, rejected 132 of 164 challenged ballots.
The challenge drew the attention of Secretary of State Monae Johnson’s office, which had advised a county official that the challenged items didn’t meet state law.
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New real estate rules impact South Dakota homebuyers
RAPID CITY, S.D. (KOTA) – A 2023 legal decision is changing how realtors nationwide do business, causing lots of confusion for potential home buyers.
The National Association of Realtors has made some new rules affecting how real estate agents get compensated.
Under the new rules, when a home is sold, the seller doesn’t automatically pay both the listing agent and the buyer’s agent. Instead, the seller can choose how much to pay the buyer’s agents or whether to pay them at all.
Stacey Nelson, a South Dakota Realtor, says this price has always been negotiable.
“One of the confusions about real estate is that the set fee is set, and that’s not true. In South Dakota, our fees have always been negotiable; we establish those professional fees with the buyer’s agents and the listing agent at the time of listing with the client,” Nelson said.
These national changes, which went into effect Saturday, August 17, are meant to make the process clearer for the buyer, the agent and the seller.
But the only significant change in South Dakota is that now, buyers must sign an agreement before they can even begin touring homes with their agent.
“Now when we work with consumers, not actually clients but just somebody coming to look at a house, they will be required to sign a buyers-agency agreement,” Nelson said.
The buyers-agency agreement will detail exactly how much a buyer will be expected to pay their agent.
“For the last 20-some years, we have had explicit buyer-agency agreements with our buyers, and in our listing agreements we’ve disclosed what the buyer’s professional fee is and what the seller’s agent professional fee is,” Nelson explained.
Nelson says the changes won’t impact South Dakota, since realtors in the Mount Rushmore state already did most of the new rules.
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