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SD Code › Title 58 › Chapter 17 › Section 58-17-2

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A policy of health insurance shall purport to insure only one person, except that a policy may insure, originally or by subsequent amendment, upon the application of an adult member of a family, who shall be deemed the policyholder, any two or more eligible members of that family, including husband, wife, dependent children, or any children under a specified age which shall not exceed nineteen years and any other person dependent upon the policyholder or any other person related to and resident in the household of the insured.

Source: SL 1966, ch 111, ch 25, § 2 (3).

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