The hours of employment of full-time employees of municipal fire departments are governed by municipal policy or contract, but may not exceed two hundred twelve hours during a twenty-eight-day work period or two hundred four hours during a twenty-seven-day work period, as determined by mutual agreement, unless the employee is paid additional compensation or is allowed compensatory time off.

Source: SL 1933 (SS), ch 10 , § 2; SDC 1939, § 17.0103; SL 1949, ch 75 , § 1; SL 1951, ch 93 , § 1; SL 1959, ch 100 ; SL 1966, ch 63 , § 1; SL 1976, ch 33 , § 1; SL 1986, ch 30 ; SL 2010, ch 19 , § 25; SDCL § 3-6-17; SL 2012, ch 23 , § 105; SL 2026, ch 33 , § 30.