2011 South Dakota Code
Title 20 PERSONAL RIGHTS AND OBLIGATIONS
Chapter 13. Human Rights
§20-13-35 Notice to answer charge after investigating official's report--Time for hearing--Hearing examiner--Right to transfer matter to circuit court.


SD Codified L § 20-13-35 (through 2011) What's This?

20-13-35. Notice to answer charge after investigating official's report--Time for hearing--Hearing examiner--Right to transfer matter to circuit court. If the investigating official is satisfied that further endeavor to settle a charge by conference or conciliation is futile, the official shall report the same to the Commission of Human Rights. If the commission determines that the circumstances warrant, it shall issue a written notice requiring the respondent to answer the charge at a hearing to be set within a reasonable period of time before the commission, a commissioner, or any other person designated by the commission to conduct the hearing, hereinafter referred to as hearing examiner, and at a time and place to be specified in the notice. The notice shall include a statement informing the parties of their right to transfer the matter to circuit court as provided in § 20-13-35.1.

Source: SL 1972, ch 11, § 11 (6); SL 1981, ch 166, § 12; SL 1991, ch 179, § 18.

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