The word, person, wherever used in this chapter shall be construed to mean any person, partnership, joint stock company, unincorporated association, or society, or municipal, public or other corporation of any character whatsoever.
S.D. Codified Laws § 21-24-2
Person including business associations and public agencies
Known as the Uniform Declaratory Judgments Act
The act spans §§ 21–21 (16 sections).
Applied in 6 court decisions — leading case St. John's Hospital Medical Staff v. St. John Regional Medical Center, Inc. (1976)
Most recently applied in Nelson v. Viken (November 2005)
Source: SL 1925, ch 214, § 13; SDC 1939 & Supp 1960, § 37.0113.
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.