24:14:14:16.02.  Meeting to encourage mediation. The department may establish procedures to offer to parents and a public agency or nonpublic service provider who elect not to use the mediation process the opportunity to meet, at a time and location convenient to the parents, with a disinterested party:

          (1)  Who is under contract with a parent training and information center or community parent resource center in the state, or an appropriate alternative dispute resolution entity; and

          (2)  Who would explain the benefits of the mediation process and encourage the parents to use the process.

          Source: 35 SDR 82, effective October 22, 2008.

          General Authority: SDCL 13-37-1.1.

          Law Implemented: SDCL 13-1-23, 13-14-1, 13-37-1.1.