Each agency shall make available for public inspection all rules, final orders, decisions, opinions, intra-agency memoranda, together with all other materials, written statements of policy or interpretations formulated, adopted, or used by the agency in the discharge of its functions. An agency shall hold confidential materials derogatory to a person but such information shall be made available to the person to whom it relates.
S.D. Codified Laws § 1-26-2
Agency materials available for public inspection--Derogatory materials
Known as the South Dakota Administrative Procedures Act
The act spans §§ 1–1 (109 sections).
Applied in 3 court decisions — leading case Application of Ed Phillips & Sons Company (1972)
Most recently applied in Argus Leader v. Hagen (September 2007)
Source: SDC 1939, § 55.1203; SL 1966, ch 159, § 2; SL 1972, ch 8, § 4.
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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.