The department shall appoint one or more impartial appeals referees to hear and decide disputed claims. No referee may preside at a hearing in which the referee has an interest in the outcome thereof.

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Source: SL 1936 (SS), ch 3, § 6 (d); SDC 1939, § 17.0834; SL 1941, ch 89; SL 1947, ch 88, § 15; SL 2008, ch 277, § 153.