CHAPTER 273

(HB 1115)

Supplemental coverages offered with automobile liability policies.

         ENTITLED, An Act to  require that supplemental coverages be made available with automobile liability policies.

BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF SOUTH DAKOTA:

     Section  1.  That § 58-23-7 be amended to read as follows:

     58-23-7.   No application for an automobile liability policy may be taken with respect to any automobile registered or principally garaged in this state unless the supplemental coverages set forth in § 58-23-8 are offered to the named insured who shall have the right to reject in writing all or any one or more of such coverages made available to the named insured .

     Signed February 22, 2005

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