Title 31 — HIGHWAYS AND BRIDGES
36 chapters · 798 sections in this title.
SDCL § 31-24-1 Duty of highway authorities to provide access to abutting property at public expense--New construction
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If the construction, improvement, and repair of any public highway by the state, or by any county or township, leaves a ditch or elevation along the roadside and deprives any abutting landowner of easy and convenient access from the owner's land to the highway, the highway author…
SDCL § 31-24-2 Approaches necessitated by highway construction--Maintenance
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Approaches required by § 31-24-1 shall be built by the highway authority constructing the highway if the building of such approach becomes necessary as a result of highway construction. In all cases any such structure, culvert, bridge, or approach so constructed shall be maintain…
SDCL § 31-24-3 Limitation on number of farm entrances--Additional entrances at owner's expense
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The owner, as a matter of right, is not entitled under § 31-24-1 to the construction of more than one farm entrance on any one tract or parcel of land at the expense of the public authority whose duty it is to maintain the highway. However, the owner may at the owner's expense up…
SDCL § 31-24-4 Additional entrances to property previously having more than one farm entrance--Limitations
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Notwithstanding § 31-24-3 , if at the time of the construction, improvement, or repair of any public highway the abutting owner has more than one farm entrance to the highway, which entrance has been in reasonably constant use for more than two years prior to the new construction…
SDCL § 31-24-5 Construction on private property prohibited
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No connecting structure or approach described by § 31-24-1 may be constructed by the highway authorities upon private property nor beyond the right-of-way line. Source: SL 1921, ch 250 ; SDC 1939, § 28.0908; SL 1941, ch 132 ; SL 2010, ch 145 , § 117.
SDCL § 31-24-6 Entrance to existing highway at owner's expense--Permit--Construction in accordance with approved plans
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If any public highway as already constructed is of such character as to deprive the owner of the abutting land of easy and convenient access from the owner's land to the highway, the owner of the land may, at the owner's expense, except as provided by chapters 31-7 and 31-8 , con…
SDCL § 31-24-7 Interference with drainage--Obstruction of right-of-way
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No entrance may be so constructed pursuant to § 31-24-6 as to interfere with the proper and necessary drainage of the highway. No portion of the right-of-way of the highway other than that necessary for the entrance shall be occupied or used for business purposes. Source: SDC 193…
SDCL § 31-24-9 Approaches to highway grade crossings--Failure to perform duty to provide--Petty offense
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Township supervisors, county commissioners, the Department of Transportation, or others having direction of any highway grade shall provide at every place where such grade crosses an intersecting public highway an easy and accessible approach to such grade on each side thereof up…