No action may be brought against a licensed real estate broker, broker associate, or salesperson, or any agent or employee thereof, for malpractice, error, mistake, or omission, whether based upon contract or tort, unless it is commenced within three years of the occurrence of the alleged malpractice, error, mistake, or omission. This section is prospective in application.
S.D. Codified Laws § 15-2-14.6
Time for bringing action against real estate licensees, agents, and employees--Prospective application
Applied in 3 court decisions — leading case Bailey v. Duling (2013)
Most recently applied in Slota v. Imhoff (September 2020)
Source: SL 2004, ch 140, § 1.
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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.