The provisions of chapters 49-7 to 49-13, inclusive, and this chapter apply to all telecommunications companies and to all telecommunications lines and facilities of any kind, character or description in use by any corporation, receiver, trustee, or other person operating a telecommunications company, whether owned or operated under contract, agreement, lease or otherwise.
S.D. Codified Laws § 49-31-2
Applicability of statutes to telecommunications companies
Applied in 5 court decisions — leading case At & T Information Systems v. South Dakota State Board of Equalization (1987)
Most recently applied in Interstate Telephone Cooperative, Inc. v. Public Utilities Commission (June 1994)
Source: SDC 1939, §§ 52.0201, 52.1301; SDCL, § 49-3-3; SL 1979, ch 307, § 19; SL 1987, ch 345, § 42; SL 1992, ch 328, § 2.
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.