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South Dakota regulations: details
Copied from the South Dakota Legislative Research Council’s own rule data, the data its Administrative Rules pages show on October 19, 2026. Check the official page before you rely on a rule.
What is here
- Release 1: 27,457 sections of the Administrative Rules of South Dakota, read by us from the rule data the Legislative Research Council’s own site uses for its rule pages. We copied all 554 articles of its rule index on October 19, 2026. Each section comes back as printed, with its Source line (the South Dakota Register entries that made or changed it) and its General Authority and Law Implemented lines. A rule changed after we copied it is not reflected here.
- Of the 29,683 units our readers found, 2,226 are held and not shown, each with its reasons: mainly sections that print no Source line, most of them one-line transferred, reserved, repealed or superseded notices (1,762), tables (219), text printed before any section number (188). A held unit comes back as held, with its reasons and no text. Held is not absent.
- 197 articles print no section at all: they are reserved, repealed, transferred or voided, or a contents page only. They are listed with the status the index gives them.
- Our copy is not the official version. The Council says it makes no warranty, and that for official content you should “refer to the current printed version of the Code or consult an attorney.” Read the rule on its site before relying on it.
- Look a section up by its citation, as in ARSD 17:50:01:01. A long section comes back in pages, and nothing is cut. An article such as ARSD 17:50, or a chapter such as ARSD 17:50:01, lists its units: shown and held.
How we checked it
- Two separate readers, written with no shared code, read every article: one with a standard HTML parser, one by plain text operations. A section is shown only where both agree on every word of its text and on its Source, General Authority and Law Implemented lines.
- A section is held when it prints no Source line, when its number is printed twice or outside its article, when it holds a table, a picture or struck text, or when the two readers differ. Contents pages are read only to check that every number they list has a section.
- Before release, we drew 20 shown sections at random and fetched each one again from the Council’s own data for that section. All 20 matched word for word.
- One AI system wrote the readers, ran every check and made every reading and ruling, with no second reader.
What it can't tell you
- Whether a rule is in force, valid or current, or is good law.
- Whether anything changed after we copied the rules on October 19, 2026.
- What the held units say.
Known gaps
- 2,226 units are held, not shown; most are one-line notices that a section was transferred, reserved or repealed.
- Tables, pictures and forms appendices are held, not shown.
- Chapter and article contents pages and article-level notes are not shown.
- Paragraphs are shown one a line; bold, italic, underlining and indentation are not shown.
- Keyword search reads only the shown sections. Held units have no text here and never match.
Notes you may see on an entry
- A held unit: “GLO holds this unit and does not show its text, because its two readers or the release check did not clear it. Its reasons are listed by name.”
- An article with no section: “The Council’s page for this article prints no section: it is a status page or a contents page. Its status is listed as the index gives it.”
- A section not in this copy: “Not in this copy of the Administrative Rules of South Dakota, neither shown nor held. That never means the rule does not exist.”
Nothing here is legal advice or a judgment that a rule is in force. Full counts for software: the defect_floor field on every South Dakota result (source=sd).