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SDCL § 46-7-1 Excess capacity of works--Availability for beneficial use
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The owner of any works for storage, diversion, or carriage of water which have a capacity in excess of the needs of the owner for lawful application of water to beneficial use may be required to make the excess capacity available, at reasonable rates, to any person entitled to us…
SDCL § 46-7-12 Willful damage, destruction, or interference with works prohibited
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No person, for any purposes other than those contemplated by this title, may willfully damage, destroy, or otherwise interfere with any works for the application of water to beneficial use, for the apportionment or measurement of water or for any hydrographic study, nor may any p…
SDCL § 46-7-14 Unauthorized injury to or interference with pier, boom, or dam prohibited
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No person may, without authority of law, interfere with any pier, boom, or dam lawfully erected or maintained upon any waters within this state, hoist any gate of a dam, whether in or about the dam, damage or destroy any dam or any embankment necessary for support of the dam or m…
SDCL § 46-7-15 Removal or injury of piles prohibited
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No person may maliciously draw up, remove, cut, or otherwise injure any piles fixed in the ground and used for securing any bank or dam of any river, canal, drain, aqueduct, marsh, reservoir, pool, port, dock, quay, jetty, or lock. Source: SDC 1939, § 13.4507; SL 1983, ch 314 , §…