Each agency and the officers thereof charged with the duty to administer the laws and rules of the agency shall have power to cause the deposition of witnesses residing within or without the state or absent therefrom to be taken or other discovery procedure to be conducted upon notice to the interested person, if any, in like manner that depositions of witnesses are taken or other discovery procedure is to be conducted in civil actions pending in circuit court in any matter concerning contested cases.
S.D. Codified Laws § 1-26-19.2
Depositions of witnesses
Known as the South Dakota Administrative Procedures Act
The act spans §§ 1-26-1 to 1-26-9 (109 sections).
Applied in 2 court decisions — leading case Matter of SD Water Mgmt. Bd. (1984)
Most recently applied in In re the Decision of the State Water Management Board Approving Water Permit No. 1791-2 (June 1984)
Source: SL 1972, ch 8, § 22.
Official source: South Dakota Legislature. Reproduced from public-domain South Dakota statutes; confirm against the official source for the current text. Not legal advice.