The Commission of Human Rights shall be administered under the direction and supervision of the Department of Labor and Regulation and the director thereof, but shall retain the quasi-judicial, quasi-legislative, advisory, other nonadministrative and special budgetary functions (as defined in § 1-32-1) otherwise vested in it and shall exercise those functions independently of the director of human rights.
S.D. Codified Laws § 20-13-2.1
Direction and supervision of commission by Department of Labor and Regulation--Independent functions retained by commission
Known as the South Dakota Human Relations Act
The act spans §§ 20–20 (84 sections).
Applied in 3 court decisions — leading case Light v. Elliott (1980)
Most recently applied in 541 F. Supp. 332 - Wangsness v. WATERTOWN SCHOOL DIST. NO. 14-4, ETC. (May 1982)
Source: SL 1973, ch 2 (Ex
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