59 chapters · 1,120 sections in this title.
SDCL § 9-12-1 General corporate powers--Municipal property
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Every municipality has the power: (1) To sue and be sued and to contract in its corporate name; (2) To acquire by lease, purchase, gift, condemnation, or other lawful means and hold in its corporate name, or use and control as provided by law, both real and personal property and …
SDCL § 9-12-10 Municipal census
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Every municipality has power to provide for the taking of the census of the municipality. Source: SL 1890, ch 37 , art V, § 69; RPolC 1903, § 1229, subdiv 69; SL 1913, ch 119 , § 53, subdiv 69; RC 1919, § 6170 (14); SDC 1939, § 45.0202 (6); SL 1992, ch 60 , § 2; SL 2025, ch 38 , …
SDCL § 9-12-11 Promotion of municipality--Appropriation and expenditure of funds--Records
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A municipality may appropriate money from its general fund to promote itself. If there are commercial clubs, chambers of commerce, or industrial development corporations organized and incorporated as nonprofit corporations under the laws of the State of South Dakota for the purpo…
SDCL § 9-12-12 Employment of welfare workers
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In addition to other powers granted, every municipality of the first class shall have power to employ one or more persons to act as welfare workers in the distribution of funds derived from any source to needy poor. Source: SL 1933, ch 154 ; SDC 1939, § 45.0203 (1).