As used in this chapter, the term, surrogate parent, means any individual assigned by the district to act in place of the parent of a child in need of special education when the school district cannot identify or locate the parent or the child is a ward of the state.
S.D. Codified Laws § 13-37-2.1
Surrogate parent defined
Source: SL 1989, ch 150, § 1; SL 1990, ch 195, § 1; SL 2003, ch 272 (Ex
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