61-1-38. Student nurses, interns, and hospital patients exempt.
As used in this title, the term, employment, does not include:
(1)Service performed as a student nurse in the employ of a hospital or nurses training school by an individual who is enrolled in and is regularly attending classes in a nurses training school chartered or approved pursuant to state law; and service performed as an intern in the employ of a hospital by an individual who has completed a four years' course in a medical school chartered or approved pursuant to state law; or
(2)Service performed in the employ of a hospital, if such service is performed by a patient of the hospital, as defined in §61-1-1.
Source: SDC 1939, §17.0802 (7) (g) (16) as added by SL 1941, ch 82, §3; SL 1971, ch 276, §14; SL 2008, ch 277, §24; SDCL §61-1-23; SL 2012, ch 252, §59.