This chapter is declared to be remedial; its purpose is to settle and to afford relief from uncertainty and insecurity with respect to rights, status, and other legal relations; and is to be liberally construed and administered.
S.D. Codified Laws § 21-24-14
Chapter declared remedial--Liberal construction
Known as the Uniform Declaratory Judgments Act
The act spans §§ 21–21 (16 sections).
Applied in 4 court decisions — leading case Kneip v. Herseth (1974)
Most recently applied in Jensen, Hoffman v. Dep't of Corrections (July 2025)
Source: SL 1925, ch 214, § 12; SDC 1939 & Supp 1960, § 37.0112.
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.