Title 20 — PERSONAL RIGHTS AND OBLIGATIONS

Any municipality or county may investigate any discriminatory practices based on sex, race, color, creed, religion, ancestry, disability, familial status, or national origin, with respect to employment, labor union membership, housing accommodations, property rights, education, p…

To effectuate the foregoing policy municipalities and counties may establish a commission on human relations which may act to disseminate information, to engage in and co - operate with programs of research and education, to co - operate with persons or groups interested in simil…

In the hearing of verified complaints such a commission may subpoena and examine witnesses, administer oaths, take testimony, and require the production for examination of relevant books or papers and to take such affirmative action as in the judgment of the commission will effec…

No later than twenty days after notice of a finding of probable cause by the local commission and prior to hearing, the charging party or respondent may elect to have the claims asserted in the charge decided in circuit court in lieu of a hearing before the local commission. Part…

All decisions of a commission shall be subject to appeal under the same conditions and in the manner provided under §§ 1-26-30 to 1-26-37 , inclusive. Source: SL 1970, ch 66 , § 4.

Words defined in § 20-13-1 shall have the same meaning when used in this chapter. Source: SL 1975, ch 165 , § 1.

Upon the filing of any complaint under the provisions of § 20-12-5 , the parties to the complaint shall be notified that any party thereto may, within fifteen days of the date of receipt of the notice of the proceeding, demand as a matter of right that the matter be transferred t…