Superintendents, principals, supervisors, and teachers and their aids and assistants, have the authority, to use the physical force that is reasonable and necessary for supervisory control over students. Like authority over students is given any person delegated to supervise children who have been authorized to attend a school function away from their school premises and to school bus drivers while students are riding, boarding, or leaving the buses.
S.D. Codified Laws § 13-32-2
Physical force authorized when reasonable and necessary--Attendance at school functions away from premises--Authority of bus drivers
Applied in 2 court decisions — leading case Ingraham v. Wright (1977)
Most recently applied in Graff v. Children's Care Hospital and School (May 2020)
Source: SL 1955, ch 41, ch 12, § 20; SL 1959, ch 79; SDC Supp 1960, § 15.3020; SL 1990, ch 128, § 1.
Official source: South Dakota Legislature. Reproduced from public-domain South Dakota statutes; confirm against the official source for the current text. Not legal advice.