It shall be the duty of the attorney general to bring an action for the general adjudication of the nature, extent, content, scope, and relative priority of the water rights and the rights to use water of all persons, or entities, public or private, on any river system and on all other sources, when in his judgment, or in the judgment of the Water Management Board, the public interests require such action.
S.D. Codified Laws § 46-10-1
Action for general adjudication of water or water use rights--When attorney general to bring
Applied in 2 court decisions — leading case In Re Gen. Adjudication of All Rights to Use Water (1982)
Most recently applied in South Dakota ex rel. Meierhenry v. Rippling Water Ranch, Inc. (January 1982)
Source: SDC 1939, § 55.1811; SL 1980, ch 305, § 1.
Official source: South Dakota Legislature. Reproduced from public-domain South Dakota statutes; confirm against the official source for the current text. Not legal advice.