<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><head><meta charset="UTF-8" /><meta http-equiv='content-language' content='en-us'/><title>SDLRC - Codified Law 1-26-31 - Notice of appeal--Time for service and filing. </title><meta name="Generator" content="PowerTools for Open XML" /><style>span { white-space: pre-wrap; } p.s2031477Normal { margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0; text-align: justify; font-family: 'Times New Roman', 'serif'; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 108%; margin-left: 0; margin-right: 0; } span.s2031477SENU { font-family: 'Times New Roman', 'serif'; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: bold; margin: 0; padding: 0; } span.s2031477CL { font-family: 'Times New Roman', 'serif'; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: bold; margin: 0; padding: 0; } p.s2031477Normal-000000 { margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0; text-indent: 0.50in; text-align: justify; font-family: 'Times New Roman', 'serif'; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 108%; margin-left: 0; margin-right: 0; } span.s2031477DefaultParagraphFont { font-family: 'Times New Roman', 'serif'; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; margin: 0; padding: 0; } span.s2031477000001 { font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; margin: 0; padding: 0; } span.s2031477SCL { font-family: 'Times New Roman', 'serif'; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: bold; margin: 0; padding: 0; } span.s2031477SCL-000002 { font-family: 'Times New Roman', 'serif'; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; margin: 0; padding: 0; } </style></head><body><div><p dir="ltr" class="s2031477Normal"><a href="https://sdlegislature.gov/Statutes/Codified_Laws/DisplayStatute.aspx?Type=Statute&amp;Statute=1-26-31"><span class="s2031477SENU">1-26-31</span></a><span xml:space="preserve" class="s2031477SENU">. </span><span class="s2031477CL">Notice of appeal--Time for service and filing.</span></p><p dir="ltr" class="s2031477Normal-000000"><span class="s2031477DefaultParagraphFont">An appeal shall be taken by serving a copy of a notice of appeal upon the adverse party, upon the agency, and upon the hearing examiner, if any, who rendered the decision, and by filing the original with proof of such service in the office of the clerk of courts of the county in which the venue of the appeal is set, within thirty days after the agency served notice of the final decision or, if a rehearing is authorized by law and is requested, within thirty days after notice has been served of the decision thereon. Failure to serve notice of the appeal upon the hearing examiner does not constitute a jurisdictional bar to the appeal.</span></p><p dir="ltr" class="s2031477Normal"><span xml:space="preserve" class="s2031477000001"> </span></p><p dir="ltr" class="s2031477Normal"><span class="s2031477SCL">Source:</span><span xml:space="preserve" class="s2031477SCL-000002"> SDC 1939 &amp; Supp 1960, § 33.4208; SL 1966, ch 159, § 15(2); SDCL, § 21-33-5; SL 1972, ch 8, §§ 28, 32; SL 1974, ch 16, § 10; SL 1975, ch 17, § 3; SL 1979, ch 8, § 4; SL 1999, ch 7, § 1; SL 2004, ch 23, § 1.</span></p></div></body></html><br /><hr><br /><html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" lang="en-US"><head><meta charset="UTF-8"><meta http-equiv='content-language' content='en-us'/><title>SDLRC - Codified Law 1-26-31 - Notice of appeal--Time for service and filing. </title><meta name="Generator" content="PowerTools for Open XML"><style>span { white-space: pre-wrap; } p.s1b2b0a280535498da3244ca4f031af4fNormal { text-indent: 0.50in; 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and</span></p><p dir="ltr" class="s1b2b0a280535498da3244ca4f031af4fStatuteNumber1"><span class="s1b2b0a280535498da3244ca4f031af4fDefaultParagraphFont">(5)    For an appeal from a final decision, ruling, or action rendered by an administrative appeals process adopted by a home-rule municipality, the appellant must appeal to the circuit court in which the home-rule municipality is located.</span></p><p dir="ltr" class="s1b2b0a280535498da3244ca4f031af4fStatute"><span class="s1b2b0a280535498da3244ca4f031af4fDefaultParagraphFont">Appeals from a single administrative action may not proceed in more than one county. If multiple appeals of a single action are filed in more than one county, the appeals must be consolidated and heard in the county in which the appeal is first filed. If more than one appeal is first filed on the same date and a stipulation among the parties as to venue cannot be reached, the venue of the appeal is in the circuit court for Hughes County.</span></p><p dir="ltr" class="s1b2b0a280535498da3244ca4f031af4fNormal"><span xml:space="preserve" class="s1b2b0a280535498da3244ca4f031af4f000000"> </span></p><p dir="ltr" class="s1b2b0a280535498da3244ca4f031af4fNoIndent"><span xml:space="preserve" class="s1b2b0a280535498da3244ca4f031af4fDefaultParagraphFont-000001">Source: </span><span class="s1b2b0a280535498da3244ca4f031af4fSCL">SDC 1939 &amp; Supp 1960, § 33.4207; SDCL § 21-33-7; SL 1975, ch 17, § 5; SL 1983, ch 8, § 1; SL 2004, ch 24, § 1; SL 2012, ch 7, § 2; SL 2024, ch 9, § 1.</span></p></div></body></html><br /><hr><br /><html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><head><meta charset="UTF-8" /><meta http-equiv='content-language' content='en-us'/><title>SDLRC - Codified Law 1-26-31 - Notice of appeal--Time for service and filing. </title><meta name="Generator" content="PowerTools for Open XML" /><style>span { white-space: pre-wrap; 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Supp 1960, § 33.4209; SDCL, § 21-33-6; SL 1975, ch 17, § 4; SL 1977, ch 13, § 13.</span></p></div></body></html><br /><hr><br /><html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><head><meta charset="UTF-8" /><meta http-equiv='content-language' content='en-us'/><title>SDLRC - Codified Law 1-26-31 - Notice of appeal--Time for service and filing. </title><meta name="Generator" content="PowerTools for Open XML" /><style>span { white-space: pre-wrap; } p.s2031480Normal { margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0; text-align: justify; font-family: 'Times New Roman', 'serif'; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 108%; margin-left: 0; margin-right: 0; } span.s2031480SENU { font-family: 'Times New Roman', 'serif'; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: bold; margin: 0; padding: 0; } span.s2031480CL { font-family: 'Times New Roman', 'serif'; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: bold; margin: 0; padding: 0; } p.s2031480Normal-000000 { margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0; text-indent: 0.50in; text-align: justify; 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Supp 1960, § 33.4207; SDCL, § 21-33-8; SL 1975, ch 17, § 6; SL 1999, ch 8, § 1; SL 2000, ch 5, § 1.</span></p></div></body></html><br /><hr><br /><html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><head><meta charset="UTF-8" /><meta http-equiv='content-language' content='en-us'/><title>SDLRC - Codified Law 1-26-31 - Notice of appeal--Time for service and filing. </title><meta name="Generator" content="PowerTools for Open XML" /><style>span { white-space: pre-wrap; } p.s2031481Normal { margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0; text-align: justify; font-family: 'Times New Roman', 'serif'; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 108%; margin-left: 0; margin-right: 0; } span.s2031481SENU { font-family: 'Times New Roman', 'serif'; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: bold; margin: 0; padding: 0; } span.s2031481CL { font-family: 'Times New Roman', 'serif'; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: bold; margin: 0; padding: 0; } p.s2031481Normal-000000 { margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0; text-indent: 0.50in; 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If any other appellant wishes to raise additional issues on appeal, the other appellant shall file a statement of additional issues on appeal within ten days after service of the appellant's statement.</span></p><p dir="ltr" class="s2031481Normal"><span xml:space="preserve" class="s2031481000001"> </span></p><p dir="ltr" class="s2031481Normal"><span class="s2031481SCL">Source:</span><span xml:space="preserve" class="s2031481SCL-000002"> Supreme Court Rule 82-35; SL 2008, ch 280 (Supreme Court Rule 07-01), eff. Jan. 1, 2008; SL 2019, ch 4, § 1.</span></p></div></body></html>