S.D. Codified Laws § 60-2-12

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Employee not bound to deliver without demand

Official statutory text

An employee who receives anything on account of an employer in any capacity other than that of a mere employee, is not bound to deliver it to the employer until demanded, and is not at liberty to send it to the employer from a distance without demand, in any mode involving greater risk than its retention by the employee.

Source: CivC 1877, § 1144; CL 1887, § 3767; RCivC 1903, § 1463; RC 1919, § 1087; SDC 1939, § 17.0310; SL 2008, ch 276, § 17.

Status: in_force · Read it on the official government site

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