A person who is not an original party to a contested case and whose pecuniary interests would be directly and immediately affected by an agency's order made upon the hearing may become a party to the hearing by intervention, if timely application therefor is made.
S.D. Codified Laws § 1-26-17.1
Intervention in contested case by person with pecuniary interests
Known as the South Dakota Administrative Procedures Act
The act spans §§ 1-26-1 to 1-26-9 (109 sections).
Applied in 3 court decisions — leading case Zander v. South Dakota State Conservation Commission (1981)
Most recently applied in In Re South Dakota Real Estate Commission (April 1992)
Source: SL 1978, ch 13, § 5.
How often courts cite this section
Court decisions citing this, by year. The dip in the last several years is a data-coverage gap, not a real trend — our corpus holds fewer opinions from the most recent years, so recent citations are undercounted.
Official source: South Dakota Legislature. Reproduced from public-domain South Dakota statutes; confirm against the official source for the current text. Not legal advice.