Title 9 — MUNICIPAL GOVERNMENT

Every first or second class municipality with a population of seven hundred fifty or more, as shown by the last preceding federal census, shall provide and maintain public toilets for each sex in accessible locations near the center of the business district. Such toilets shall be…

Every municipality shall have power to compel the owner of any stable, pigsty, privy, sewer, cesspool, or of any unwholesome or nauseous thing or place to cleanse, abate, or remove the same and to regulate the location thereof. Source: SL 1890, ch 37 , art V, § 1, subdiv 68; RPol…

Every municipality shall have power to control the location and regulate the management and construction of packinghouses, slaughterhouses, renderies, bone and soap factories, foundries, livery stables, and blacksmith shops and to prohibit any offensive or unwholesome business or…

Every municipality shall have power to prevent the pollution of or injury to any water supply belonging to the municipality or any public water supply within or within one mile of the limits of the municipality. Source: SL 1909, ch 158 ; RC 1919, § 6169 (75); SDC 1939, § 45.0201 …

Every municipality shall have power to regulate the construction, repair, and use of vaults, cisterns, areas, hydrants, pumps, sewers, and gutters. Source: SL 1890, ch 37 , art V, § 1, subdiv 42; RPolC 1903, § 1229, subdiv 42; SL 1913, ch 119 , § 53, subdiv 42; RC 1919, § 6169 (7…

Every municipality shall have power to regulate or prohibit the storage of combustible or explosive material, the use of open flame lights, the building of bonfires, and the use or sale of fireworks. Source: SL 1890, ch 37 , art V, § 1, subdiv 53; RPolC 1903, § 1229, subdiv 53; S…

Every municipality shall have power to provide for the examination by duly authorized officers at reasonable hours of dwellings, buildings, and enclosures to ascertain whether in a dangerous condition, and to provide for remedying such condition. Source: PolC 1877, ch 24, § 22, s…

Every municipality shall have power to construct, operate, and maintain fire stations, fire engines, fire apparatus, and equipment, a system of fire signals, fire hydrants, and mains, and a water supply for prevention and extinguishment of fires. Source: SL 1890, ch 37 , art V, §…

A municipality may purchase and repair fire - fighting equipment, apparatus, buildings, and sites. Source: SDC 1939, § 45.0201 (9) as added by SL 1967, ch 217 ; SL 1975, ch 89 , § 1; SL 1978, ch 62 , § 9; SL 1978, ch 64 .

A municipality may appropriate funds for the maintenance of a voluntary fire department, and for transportation of its members to the state firemen's tournament. Source: SL 1917, ch 308 ; RC 1919, § 6169 (78); SDC 1939, § 45.0201 (9); SL 1978, ch 62 , § 10. 9-33-14 to 9-33-16. Re…

Every municipality of the first class shall have power to establish, conduct, and support a program of education and instruction for the promotion of safety and the prevention of accidents. Source: SL 1957, ch 256 ; SDC Supp 1960, § 45.0203 (7); SL 1992, ch 60 , § 2.

Every municipality of the first class shall have power to establish, maintain, and support, in whole or in part, a safety council operated on any plan of membership and action as formulated by the National Safety Council. Source: SL 1955, ch 220 ; SDC Supp 1960, § 45.0203 (6); SL…

Every municipality shall have power to prescribe the fire limits within which wooden buildings shall not be erected, placed, or repaired without permission, and to provide that when a building within such limits has been damaged by fire, decay, or otherwise to an extent of fifty …

Every municipality shall have power to regulate or prohibit the keeping of any lumberyard and the keeping or selling of any lumber or other combustible material within the fire limits. Source: SL 1890, ch 37 , art V, § 1, subdiv 74; RPolC 1903, § 1229, subdiv 75; SL 1913, ch 119 …

Every municipality shall have power to prescribe the manner of constructing buildings, structures, and the walls thereof, and to require and regulate the construction of fire escapes on buildings. Source: SL 1890, ch 37 , art V, § 1, subdiv 49; RPolC 1903, § 1229, subdiv 49; SL 1…

Each municipality may adopt by ordinance certain building codes pursuant to §

The city auditor or town clerk shall keep and maintain a master copy of said code including all future deletions, modifications, and amendments which may be adopted by the governing body, and the same shall be available and subject to public inspection at all times. Source: SL 19…

Every municipality shall have power to regulate the construction and installation of and to provide for the inspection of electrical wiring and appliances and of gas piping, fittings, and appliances, and to provide the fees to be paid for such inspection. The exercise of such pow…

Every first or second class municipality shall have power to provide for the inspection of buildings and the issuance of building permits and fix the fees therefor. Source: SL 1913, ch 119 , § 53, subdiv 83; RC 1919, § 6170 (13); SDC 1939, § 45.0202 (5); SL 1992, ch 60 , § 2.

Every municipality shall have power to regulate and provide for the inspection of places of amusement and to require theaters and other places of amusement to provide asbestos stage curtains and sufficient and proper aisles and exits for escape in case of fire. Source: SL 1890, c…

Every municipality shall have power to provide for the inspection of steam boilers. Source: SL 1890, ch 37 , art V, § 1, subdiv 54; RPolC 1903, § 1229, subdiv 54; SL 1913, ch 119 , § 53, subdiv 54; RC 1919, § 6169 (73); SDC 1939, § 45.0201 (61).

Every municipality shall have power to prevent and provide for remedying any dangerous construction or condition of any building, enclosure, or manufactory or any equipment used therein, to regulate and prevent the carrying on of manufactories creating a fire hazard, and to preve…

Every municipality shall have power to fix the amount, terms, and manner of issuing and revoking licenses. Source: SL 1890, ch 37 , art V, § 1, subdiv 4; RPolC 1903, § 1229, subdiv 4; SL 1913, ch 119 , § 53, subdiv 4; RC 1919, § 6169 (3); SDC 1939, § 45.0201 (62).

Every municipality shall have power to license, tax, and regulate, and prescribe the compensation of draymen, parcel delivery men, bus drivers, cabmen, taxi drivers, porters, expressmen, and others pursuing like occupations. Source: SL 1890, ch 37 , art V, § 1, subdiv 31; RPolC 1…

Every municipality shall have power to provide for the licensing and numbering of motor drays, motor delivery wagons, motor tractors, and motor trucks. Source: SL 1917, ch 311 ; RC 1919, § 6169 (54); SL 1929, ch 197 ; SDC 1939, § 45.0201 (67).

A municipality may license, tax, and regulate plumbers, electricians, electrical workers, residential contractors and heating, ventilation, and air conditioning contractors. The residential contractor provisions of this section do not apply to dealers of manufactured or mobile ho…

Every municipality shall have power to license, tax, and regulate exhibitions, shows, and amusements. Source: SL 1890, ch 37 , art V, § 1, subdiv 30; RPolC 1903, § 1229, subdiv 30; SL 1913, ch 119 , § 53, subdiv 30; RC 1919, § 6169 (55); SL 1925, ch 245 ; SDC 1939, § 45.0201 (68)…

Every municipality shall have power to license, regulate, or prohibit pool and billiard rooms and bowling alleys. Source: SL 1890, ch 37 , art V, § 1, subdiv 33; RPolC 1903, § 1229, subdiv 33; SL 1903, ch 94 ; SL 1913, ch 119 , § 53, subdiv 33; RC 1919, § 6169 (58); SDC 1939, § 4…

Every municipality shall have power to license, tax, regulate, or prohibit public dances or public dance halls and skating rinks. Source: SL 1909, ch 31 ; RC 1919, § 6169 (60); SL 1921, ch 308 ; SDC 1939, § 45.0201 (71).

Every municipality shall have power to license, tax, regulate, or prohibit palmists, clairvoyants, phrenologists, mind readers, fortunetellers, and fakirs. Source: SL 1909, ch 31 ; RC 1919, § 6169 (61); SDC 1939, § 45.0201 (70).

Any municipality may regulate the practice of tattooing, saline tattoo removal, and body piercing by licensing practitioners of tattooing, saline tattoo removal, or body piercing; inspecting tattoo, saline tattoo removal, and body piercing establishments; and establishing standar…

Any county or municipality may regulate door - to - door sales, peddlers and solicitors. Source: SL 1925, ch 252 , § 15; SDC 1939, § 54.0607; SL 1967, ch 245 , § 2; SDCL, § 37-13-16; SL 1992, ch 276 , § 16.

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Every municipality shall have power to establish and regulate markets and build market houses. Source: PolC 1877, ch 24, § 22, subdiv 8; CL 1887, § 1043, subdiv 8; SL 1890, ch 37 , art V, § 1, subdiv 35; RPolC 1903, § 1229, subdiv 35; RPolC 1903, § 1438, subdiv 8; SL 1913, ch 119…

Every municipality shall have power to provide for the inspection and sealing of weights and measures and to enforce the keeping of proper weights and measures by vendors. Source: SL 1890, ch 37 , art V, § 1, subdiv 40, 41; RPolC 1903, § 1229, subdiv 40, 41; SL 1913, ch 119 , § 5…

Every municipality shall have power to provide for the inspection, weighing, and measuring of articles of merchandise and fuel and for the places and manner of weighing and measuring the same, and to establish city scales, and to appoint weighers and inspectors. Source: SL 1890, …

Every first or second class municipality shall have power: (1) To regulate the place of sale and selling of meats, poultry, fish, cheese, lard, vegetables, and similar provisions; (2) To regulate the sale and prescribe the weight and quality of bread. Source: SL 1890, ch 37 , art…

Each municipality may license, tax, and regulate transient merchants, auctioneers, transient, bankrupt, and auction stores, and stores of like nature, gift enterprises, and any business or vocation of like character. However, the municipality may exempt from any such licensure, t…

Every municipality may license, tax, regulate, or prohibit hawkers, peddlers, solicitors, pawnbrokers, ticket scalpers, and employment agencies. However, the provisions of § 9-34-18 and this section do not apply to the peddling or soliciting of telecommunications services subject…

Every municipality shall have power to tax, license, and regulate secondhand and junk stores and to forbid and punish the purchase and receipt by them from minors of any articles without the written consent of their parents or guardians. Source: SL 1890, ch 37 , art V, § 1, subdi…

Every municipality may regulate and provide for the lighting of streets, laying of gas or water pipes, and erection of lampposts, electric towers, and apparatus in connection therewith; to fix and determine the charges for telephone and telephone service connections subject to th…

Every first or second class municipality shall have power to establish, maintain, and operate, and to regulate the construction or operation of conduits of railroads, or other means of transit or transportation, and of plants and equipment for the production or transmission of st…

The governing body of each municipality in this state is empowered and vested with exclusive jurisdiction to license, regulate, fix the routes of travel, and the speed and point for stops, of all motor carriers of passengers, operators of taxicabs and motor buses conducting opera…

A municipality may, by vote of its voters as provided in §§ 9-35-13 and 9-35-14 , provide bus or transit service within the municipality or a zone adjacent thereto, enter into agreements with other persons for such services, and appropriate funds for such purposes. Source: SL 197…

Fifteen percent of the registered voters, based upon the total number of registered voters at the last preceding general election may petition for a special election as to the exercise of any of the powers referred to in §

The petition shall set forth the question or questions which the petitioners desire submitted to the voters, and shall be filed with the city auditor. The form of such petition and the conduct of the election shall be carried on in the manner set forth by chapter 9-20 . Source: S…

Municipalities providing bus or transit service under the provisions of §§ 9-35-12 to 9-35-14 , inclusive, shall take all reasonable measures to abate and prevent air pollution caused by the operation of such bus or transit service. Source: SL 1970, ch 65 , § 4.

"Community antenna television system," hereinafter referred to as "CATV system" or "system" means a system of coaxial cables or other electrical conductors and equipment used or to be used primarily to receive television or radio signals directly or indirectly off - the - air and…

CATV systems are hereby declared to be a business affected with such a public interest that they must be regulated locally. Source: SL 1972, ch 52 , § 2.

Notwithstanding the provisions of § 9-35-3 , all municipalities shall have exclusive jurisdiction by ordinance to regulate, prohibit, and consent to the construction, installation, operation, and maintenance of CATV systems within their corporate limits. Source: SL 1972, ch 52 , …