CHAPTER 299

(SB 142)

Workers compensation payment collection procedure.

         ENTITLED, An Act to  provide for collection of certain workers' compensation by court order.

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

     Section  1.  That § 62-7-31 be amended to read as follows:

     62-7-31.   Any party in interest may, after expiration of the time for a petition for review or appeal, present a memorandum of agreement, approved by the department, or a certified copy of any portion of an order or decision of the department , from which no petition for review or appeal has been filed, together with all papers in connection with the case, to the circuit court for the county in which the injury occurred whereupon . Thereupon the court shall render a judgment in accordance therewith and with the memorandum of agreement or portion of any order or decision of the department from which no petition for review has been filed, and the court shall notify the parties. Such The judgment shall have the same effect and in all proceedings in relation thereto be the same as though rendered in an action duly heard and determined by the court except that there shall be no appeal therefrom may be made on questions of fact.

     Signed March 2, 2007

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