Title 9, MUNICIPAL GOVERNMENT

If the owners of a majority of the real property fronting or abutting on a sewer described in § 9-48-16 prior to such resolution becoming effective shall file a written protest against such purchase, the governing body shall not have power to purchase the same. Source: SL 1909, c…

Each municipality may: (1) Establish, construct, and maintain main, trunk, sanitary, storm, and service sewers, and septic or sewage treatment plants, drains, and manholes either within its corporate limits or within ten miles of its corporate limits; (2) Appropriate funds and le…

No more than one sewer connection shall be made for each platted lot, or for each forty - four feet of frontage of unplatted ground, in the residence section, and for each twenty - two feet of frontage in the business section of the municipality, except when the abutting owner re…

Any municipality which has installed or plans to install sewer utilities for public use may by ordinance or resolution establish charges to be paid to the municipality for the use of the sewer utilities by every user whose premises are served by a connection to the sewer utilitie…

Such charges shall be as nearly as may be in the judgment of the governing body equitable and in proportion to the services rendered and taking into consideration in the case of each such premises the quantity of sewage therein or thereby produced and its concentration, strength,…

The metering of private water supplies produced or operated on premises served by public sewer utilities may be required. If the use or consumption of water on any premises is taken into consideration in determining the charge to be made for the use of sewer utilities serving the…

Any funds, fees, rentals, charges, or rates collected under the authority of §§ 9-48-26 to 9-48-28 , inclusive, shall be remitted to the finance officer by the officer charged with their collection at least once each month and shall be kept in a separate fund to be known as the s…

Every municipality shall have power to purchase, lease, own, and hold real property and easements therein in an adjoining state for sewerage purposes. Source: SL 1917, ch 317 ; RC 1919, § 6169 (77); SDC 1939, § 45.0201 (82).

Nothing contained in §§ 9-48-26 to 9-48-29 , inclusive, shall be construed to limit or restrict the power of municipalities to contract as granted by § 9-48-32 , and any contract heretofore or hereafter entered into under such power shall be in lieu of any fees, rates, rentals, o…

Nothing contained in §§ 9-48-26 to 9-48-29 , inclusive, shall be construed to limit or restrict the power of municipalities to establish, equip, maintain, operate, extend, or improve water and sewer systems or combined water and sewer systems in the manner provided in chapter 9-4…

A municipality where a sewage treatment or septic plant is maintained may enter into a contract to connect to the plant for the purpose of treating or disposing of private sewage or industrial waste originating within the municipality or within ten miles of the corporate limits o…

Notwithstanding any other provision in this chapter, any municipality, sanitary district, other political subdivision of this state, or any combination thereof which maintains, has installed, or plans to install sewer utilities for public use may establish, by ordinance or resolu…

Every municipality may construct, maintain, or authorize the construction and maintenance of sewer pipes on private property or in or along any stream of water, or empty or discharge the sewage of the municipality into any stream of water within or without its limits, subject to …

Every municipality shall have power, within the discretion of the governing board of the municipality, to purchase, lease with purchase option, lease or otherwise acquire from the owners thereof, or condemn under provision of subdivision 9-12-1(2), any sewer main or mains laid in…

Each building in which plumbing fixtures are installed shall connect to a public water sewer system if available. A public sewer system is available to a premise used for human occupancy if the property line of the premise is within two hundred feet of the system. A municipality …

Every municipality may issue its general obligation bonds pursuant to chapter 9-26 for the purpose of financing the construction of sewers. Source: SL 1921, ch 316 ; SDC 1939, § 45.0201 (86); SL 1984, ch 43 , § 89.

Any municipality may regulate and provide for the laying of sewer connections from the city trunk or service sewers, to the lot line. The municipality may assess the cost against the abutting property owner as provided by chapter 9-43 . Source: SL 1913, ch 119 , § 53, subdiv 12; …