No contract or agreement, express or implied, no rule, regulation, or other device, may in any manner operate to relieve any employer in whole or in part of any obligation created by this title except as provided by this title.
S.D. Codified Laws § 62-3-18
Obligation created by title not waived by contract
Applied in 8 court decisions — leading case Sopko v. C & R Transfer Co., Inc. (1998)
Most recently applied in Carpenter v. RAPID CITY RED DOGS, LLC (June 2008)
Source: SL 1917, ch 376, § 13; RC 1919, § 9448; SDC 1939, § 64.0302; SL 2008, ch 278, § 14.
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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.