Successor employers subject to coverage

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SD Code › Title 61 › Chapter 1 › Section 61-1-5

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As used in this title, the term, employer, includes any individual, group of individuals, or employing unit which acquired the organization, trade, or business, or substantially all the assets thereof, of another which at the time of the acquisition was an employer subject to this title.

Source: SL 1936 (SS), ch 3, § 19; SDC 1939, § 17.0802 (6) (b); SL 1939, ch 86, § 1; SL 2008, ch 277, § 4.

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