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.

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.