If an owner of property fails to comply with the requirements of a notice served pursuant to § 34-16-19, the county health officer shall proceed to have the nuisance, source of filth, cause of sickness or condition which endangers the public health removed from the property or abated and report the cost of the removal or abatement to the county auditor. The cost of such removal or abatement shall be assessed and charged against the property on which the nuisance or condition was located in the manner that other taxes are collected.
S.D. Codified Laws § 34-16-20
Failure to comply with notice--Removal of nuisance--Cost
Source: SL 1986, ch 279, § 2.
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