For the purposes of this chapter, a controlled-access facility is defined as a highway or street especially designed for through traffic, and over, from, or to which owners or occupants of abutting land or other persons have no right or easement or only a controlled right or easement of access, light, air, or view by reason of the fact that their property abuts upon such controlled-access facility or for any other reason.
S.D. Codified Laws § 31-8-1
Definition of controlled-access facility
Applied in 4 court decisions — leading case Hall v. State ex rel. South Dakota Department of Transportation (2006)
Most recently applied in Hall v. State Ex Rel. South Dakota Department of Transportation (October 2011)
Source: SL 1953, ch 155, § 2; SDC Supp 1960, § 28.09A02.
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.