When declaratory relief is sought all persons shall be made parties who have or claim any interest which would be affected by the declaration, and no declaration shall prejudice the rights of persons not parties to the proceeding.
S.D. Codified Laws § 21-24-7
Parties to be joined in action for declaratory relief
Known as the Uniform Declaratory Judgments Act
The act spans §§ 21–21 (16 sections).
Applied in 8 court decisions — leading case Pennington County v. State ex rel. Unified Judicial System (2002)
Most recently applied in Matter of Carver Revocable Trust (June 2020)
Source: SL 1925, ch 214, § 11; SDC 1939 & Supp 1960, § 37.0111.
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.