All marking, surveying, construction, repairing, and maintenance of the state trunk highway system is under the control and supervision of the department. The department shall administer the laws relative thereto.
S.D. Codified Laws § 31-4-14
Control and supervision of system by department
Applied in 7 court decisions — leading case High-Grade Oil Co., Inc. v. Sommer (1980)
Most recently applied in McGee v. Spencer Quarries, Inc. (December 2023)
Source: SL 1919, ch 333, § 51; SDC 1939, § 28.0211; SL 1957, ch 124; SL 1965, ch 132; SL 2010, ch 145, § 23.
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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.