Title 9 — MUNICIPAL GOVERNMENT

Every municipality shall have power to establish and define the boundary lines of rivers and streams and to improve the same as provided by this chapter. Source: SL 1931, ch 189 , § 1; SDC 1939, § 45.0201 (100).

Any municipality having established the boundary lines of any river or stream as provided in §§ 9-36-2 to 9-36-7 , inclusive, is authorized to improve the same by retaining walls, walks, and driveways, and if it is necessary for said purpose to include lands outside the boundary …

Any municipality may construct, reconstruct, repair, and maintain bulkheads, wharves, levees, or breakwaters along or across any river or stream flowing within or through its boundaries. For that purpose the municipality may purchase or condemn private property and assess the cos…

Whenever the governing body shall deem it necessary to make any such improvement as described in § 9-36-11 , it shall notify all owners of such abutting or adjoining property to construct, reconstruct, or repair the same at their own cost within the time designated, by publishing…

If a majority of the property owners do not enter a protest against the proposed improvement, and if the improvement is not made in the manner and within the time prescribed in the notice, the governing body by resolution may cause the improvement to be done and the cost of the i…

Any owner of property upon which has been or shall hereafter be constructed any such improvement, and any owner of abutting or adjoining property as described in § 9-36-12 who shall neglect to repair such improvement forthwith when notified by the governing body so to do, shall b…

Every municipality shall have power to enter into agreements with the United States, with the State of South Dakota and with any authorized agency, subdivision, or unit of government, federal or state, to cooperate in preventing or controlling flooding. Source: SL 1957, ch 255 ; …

Every municipality of five hundred or more population as shown by the last federal census may enter into agreements with the United States, with the State of South Dakota and with any authorized agency, subdivision or unit of government, federal or state, to cooperate in preventi…

All acts and proceedings had before July 1, 1959, and all contracts, appropriations, expenditures, and acquisitions theretofore made by any municipality of the state for the purpose of conserving its water resources or preventing or controlling flooding within or without its corp…

The governing body of any municipality may establish by resolution the boundary lines of any river or stream within the corporate limits. Source: SL 1931, ch 189 , § 1; SDC 1939, § 45.2001.

When it is proposed to exercise the power granted by § 9-36-2 , the governing body shall cause a survey to be made of the proposed boundary lines and said lines to be marked upon the ground by suitable stakes or monuments, and a plat of such river or stream showing said boundary …

After said plat shall have been filed, notice of such proposed resolution shall be given by the auditor or clerk by publication once each week for at least two successive weeks. The notice shall refer to the plat on file in the office of the auditor or clerk and shall fix the tim…

Such meeting shall be held not less than ten or more than thirty days subsequent to the last publication of said notice, but the meeting may be adjourned from time to time. Source: SL 1931, ch 189 , § 3; SDC 1939, § 45.2002.

Any person owning or interested in any property affected by said proposed boundary lines desiring to object thereto, by himself or his agent or attorney, may file with the auditor or clerk a written statement of his objections thereto on or before the date of the hearing announce…

At the hearing the governing body shall consider any objections, and when it shall have concluded the hearing it may approve and establish by resolution the proposed boundary lines, or change them in such manner as it may deem proper and establish them as so changed and modified,…

If any person owning or interested in any property affected by said proposed boundary lines shall have filed written objections to such resolution, such person shall have the right to appeal to the circuit court of the county in which the property affected thereby shall be locate…

If the boundary lines of said river or stream so established according to said survey shall include lands not included within the bed of said river or stream, said municipality shall have the power to acquire such lands or a perpetual easement therein for public use by purchase o…