When the amount of damages or compensation to be paid to any one or more of the owners of land taken for any ditch shall have been finally determined by proceedings under the provisions of this chapter the board of township supervisors or county commissioners, as the case may be, shall pay the same before the opening of such ditch.
S.D. Codified Laws § 31-21-8
Payment to landowner before opening of ditch
Source: SL 1883, ch 112, § 93; CL 1887, § 1341; RPolC 1903, § 1746; RC 1919, § 8604; SDC 1939, § 28.1206.
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