It shall be an unfair or discriminatory practice for any person engaged in the provision of public accommodations because of race, color, creed, religion, sex, ancestry, disability, or national origin, to fail or refuse to provide to any person access to the use of and benefit from the services and facilities of such public accommodations; or to accord adverse, unlawful, or unequal treatment to any person with respect to the availability of such services and facilities, the price or other consideration therefor, the scope and equality thereof, or the terms and conditions under which the same are made available, including terms and conditions relating to credit, payment, warranties, delivery, installation, and repair.
S.D. Codified Laws § 20-13-23
Public accommodations--Unfair or discriminatory practices
Known as the South Dakota Human Relations Act
The act spans §§ 20–20 (84 sections).
Applied in 4 court decisions — leading case Weller v. Spring Creek Resort, Inc. (1991)
Most recently applied in Weller v. Spring Creek Resort, Inc. (November 1991)
Source: SL 1972, ch 11, § 9(1); SL 1986, ch 170, § 17.
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.