The department shall appoint one or more impartial appeals referees to hear and decide disputed claims. No referee may preside at a hearing in which the referee has an interest in the outcome thereof.
S.D. Codified Laws § 61-7-6
Appointment of appeals referees--Interest in proceedings prohibited
Applied in 2 court decisions — leading case In Re the Appeal From the Final Decision of the South Dakota Department of Labor, Unemployment Insurance Division for Johnson (1983)
Most recently applied in In Re the Appeal From the Final Decision of the South Dakota Department of Labor, Unemployment Insurance Division for Johnson (August 1983)
Source: SL 1936 (SS), ch 3, § 6 (d); SDC 1939, § 17.0834; SL 1941, ch 89; SL 1947, ch 88, § 15; SL 2008, ch 277, § 153.
Official source: South Dakota Legislature. Reproduced from public-domain South Dakota statutes; confirm against the official source for the current text. Not legal advice.