It is an unfair or discriminatory practice for any person, because of race, color, creed, religion, sex, ancestry, disability, or national origin, to fail or refuse to hire, to discharge an employee, or to accord adverse or unequal treatment to any person, employee, or intern with respect to application, hiring, training, apprenticeship, tenure, promotion, upgrading, compensation, layoff, or any term or condition of employment.
S.D. Codified Laws § 20-13-10
Unfair or discriminatory practices
Known as the South Dakota Human Relations Act
The act spans §§ 20–20 (84 sections).
Applied in 19 court decisions — leading case Osterkamp v. Alkota Manufacturing, Inc. (1983)
Most recently applied in Matta v. Dakota Provisions (December 2024)
Source: SL 1972, ch 11, § 6(1); SL 1986, ch 170, § 7; SL 1991, ch 179, § 7; SL 2020, ch 70, § 2.
How often courts cite this section
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.