Any person with capacity to contract may create an agency and confer authority on any other person to do any act which he might do excepting acts to which he is bound to give personal attention.
S.D. Codified Laws § 59-2-1
Capacity to create
Applied in 2 court decisions — leading case Staab v. Skoglund (1975)
Most recently applied in Johnson v. Markve (September 2022)
Source: CivC 1877, §§ 1338, 1343; CL 1887, §§ 3961, 3966; RCivC 1903, §§ 1657, 1662; RC 1919, §§ 1235, 1244; SDC 1939, § 3.0104.
Official source: South Dakota Legislature. Reproduced from public-domain South Dakota statutes; confirm against the official source for the current text. Not legal advice.