Remedies against any nuisance are:
(1) A civil action;
(2) Abatement; and
(3) In cases of public nuisance only, the additional remedy of indictment or information as prescribed by statute and rules relating thereto.
S.D. Codified Laws § 21-10-5
Remedies against nuisances enumerated
Applied in 7 court decisions — leading case City of Rapid City v. Hoogterp (1970)
Most recently applied in Davies v. Gphc, LLC (September 2022)
Source: CivC 1877, §§ 2054, 2055, 2059; CL 1887, §§ 4688, 4689, 4693; RCivC 1903, §§ 2400, 2401, 2405; RC 1919, §§ 2073, 2074, 2086; SDC 1939 & Supp 1960, § 37.4707.
How often courts cite this section
Court decisions citing this, by year. The dip in the last several years is a data-coverage gap, not a real trend — our corpus holds fewer opinions from the most recent years, so recent citations are undercounted.
Official source: South Dakota Legislature. Reproduced from public-domain South Dakota statutes; confirm against the official source for the current text. Not legal advice.