All applicants for admission, except those applying pursuant to § 16-16-7.6, 16-16-12.1, or §§ 16-16-12.3 and 16-16-12.4 shall be required to pass satisfactorily an examination conducted by the Board of Bar Examiners. An applicant for permission to take an examination, in addition to the general qualifications prescribed in § 16-16-2, must furnish satisfactory evidence that he graduated from a law school accredited by the American Bar Association with a J.D. or LL.B. degree or that he will so graduate prior to the examination, or that he has successfully completed all of the requirements for graduation prior to the examination.

An applicant for admission who is a graduate of a foreign law school, not accredited by the American Bar Association, may apply for permission to take the South Dakota bar examination upon good cause shown if the graduate has passed the bar examination in another state and is a member in good standing of the bar of that state.

Source: SL 1893, ch 21, § 2; SL 1901, ch 60, § 2; RPolC 1903, § 686; SL 1903, ch 78; SL 1907, ch 72; RC 1919, § 5254; Supreme Court Rule 6, 1939; SDC 1939, §§ 32.1104 (1), 32.1106; Supreme Court Rule 6, Order No. 1, 1957; Supreme Court Rule, Order No. 1, 1963; Supreme Court Order No. 1, 1969; Supreme Court Rule No. 2, 1972; Supreme Court Rule 75-7; Supreme Court Rule 82-24; Supreme Court Rule 86-1; SL 1987, ch. 405 (Supreme Court Rule 86-31); SL 2004, ch 322 (Supreme Court Rule 03-21), eff. Jan. 1, 2004; SL 2014, ch 263 (Supreme Court Rule 14-04), eff. July 1, 2014; SL 2015, ch 271 (Supreme Court Rule 15-09), eff. July 1, 2015.