South Dakota § 37-24-5.2 - Transactions not considered door to door sales.

§ 37-24-5.2. Transactions not considered door to door sales.

The term "door to door sale" shall not include any transaction:

(1)    Made pursuant to prior negotiations in the course of a visit by the buyer to a retail business establishment having a fixed permanent location where the goods are exhibited or the services are offered for sale on a continuing basis; or

(2)    In which the consumer is accorded the right of rescission by the provisions of the Consumer Credit Protection Act (15 U.S.C. 1635); or

(3)    In which the buyer has initiated the contact and the goods or services are needed to meet a bona fide immediate personal emergency of the buyer, and the buyer furnishes the seller with a separate dated and signed personal statement in the buyer's handwriting describing the situation requiring immediate remedy and expressly acknowledging and waiving the right to cancel the sale within three business days; or

(4)    Conducted and consummated entirely by mail or telephone, and without any other contact between the buyer and the seller or its representative prior to delivery of the goods or performance of the services; or

(5)    In which the buyer has initiated the contact and specifically requested the seller to visit his home for the purpose of repairing or performing maintenance upon the buyer's personal property. If in the course of such a visit, the seller sells the buyer the right to receive additional services or goods other than replacement parts necessarily used in performing the maintenance or in making the repairs, the sale of those additional goods or services would not fall within this exclusion; or

(6)    Pertaining to the sale or rental of real property, to the sale of insurance or to the sale of securities or commodities by a broker-dealer registered with the Division of Insurance, Department of Labor and Regulation; or

(7)    Pertaining to the sale, lease or repair of motor vehicles, metal buildings, farm machinery or implements, or mobile homes, by a dealer having a fixed permanent location and place of business in South Dakota where such goods and services are offered on a continuing basis.

Source: SDCL § 37-24-1 as added by SL 1975, ch 244, § 1; SL 1976, ch 238; SL 1979, ch 260; SL 2003, ch 272 (Ex. Ord. 03-1), § 26; SL 2011, ch 1 (Ex. Ord. 11-1), § 162, eff. Apr. 12, 2011; SL 2017, ch 231 (Ex. Ord. 17-2), § 19, eff. Apr. 13, 2017.