S.D. Codified Laws § 15-2A-2

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Legislative intent

Official statutory text

The Legislature intends that this chapter shall bar any action for defects, unsafe conditions, errors, and omissions in the planning, designing, and construction of improvements to real estate after the times limited in this chapter, subject to the exceptions described in this chapter and that this chapter does not deprive any person of any rights or remedies such person may have, or adjust the standard of care after ten years after substantial completion, against persons other than those enumerated in this chapter for damages to property or injury to persons resulting from defective or unsafe conditions of improvement to real estate.

Source: SL 1985, ch 156, § 2.

Status: in_force · Read it on the official government site

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