62-4-10. Installment payments of compensation.

All compensation provided for in §§ 62-4-3 to 62-4-7, inclusive, shall be paid in installments at the same intervals at which the wages or earnings of the employee were paid at the time of the injury. However, if this is not feasible, then the installments shall be paid weekly.

Source: SL 1917, ch 376, § 24; RC 1919, § 9459 (9); SDC 1939, § 64.0403 (8); SL 2008, ch 278, § 16.

62-4-10.1. Penalty for untimely payment of installments--Other remedies.

Failure to make any payment of workers' compensation benefits pursuant to § 62-4-10 within ten days of the date on which the payment is due shall result in an automatic penalty equal to ten percent of the unpaid amount. Nothing herein precludes any other remedy available to the claimant.

Source: SL 1991, ch 418.