Exemption of domestics, agricultural laborers or workfare participants
Applied in 4 court decisions — leading case Keil v. Nelson (1984)
Most recently applied in Sheard v. Hattum (September 2021)
Source: SDC 1939, § 64.0201; SL 1974, ch 333, § 5; SL 1975, ch 323, § 1; SL 1982, ch 202, § 2B; SL 1997, ch 166, § 26.
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.
Except as provided in §§ 28-1-59, 62-3-16, and 62-3-17, this title does not apply to:
(1) Domestic servants unless working for an employer for more than twenty hours in any calendar week and for more than six weeks in any thirteen-week period; or
(2) Farm or agricultural laborers; or
(3) Work activity participants.
Official source: South Dakota Legislature. Reproduced from public-domain South Dakota statutes; confirm against the official source for the current text. Not legal advice.