A written agreement to submit any existing controversy to arbitration or a provision in a written contract to submit to arbitration any controversy thereafter arising between the parties is valid, enforceable and irrevocable, save upon such grounds as exist at law or in equity for the revocation of any contract. This chapter also applies to arbitration agreements between employers and employees or between their respective representatives.
S.D. Codified Laws § 21-25A-1
Enforceability of arbitration clauses in written contracts--Labor contracts
Known as the Uniform Arbitration Act
The act spans §§ 21–21 (38 sections).
Applied in 7 court decisions — leading case Maietta v. Greenfield (1972)
Most recently applied in Dakota Foundry, Inc. v. Tromley Industrial Holdings, Inc. (August 2012)
Source: SL 1971, ch 157, § 1; SL 1976, ch 155, § 1.
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.