The governing officer or board of each governmental agency shall enact, by agreement, ordinance, rule, or resolution, and make known to its employees a procedure which its employees may follow for prompt informal dispositions of their grievances.
S.D. Codified Laws § 3-18-15.1
Grievance procedures to be established
Applied in 3 court decisions — leading case Grievance of Beville v. University of South Dakota/South Dakota Board of Regents (1988)
Most recently applied in Kolda v. City of Yankton (August 2014)
Source: SL 1970, ch 27, § 1; SL 1993, ch 375, § 5.
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.