The State of South Dakota, its departments, agencies, instrumentalities, or any political subdivisions may provide relocation benefits and assistance to persons, businesses, and farm operations displaced as the result of the acquisition of land or rehabilitation or demolition of structures in connection with federally assisted projects to the same extent and for the same purposes as provided for in the Uniform Relocation Assistance and Real Property Acquisition Policies Act of 1970 (P. L. 91-646) as amended by Surface Transportation and Uniform Relocation Assistance Act of 1987 (P. L. 100-17), and may comply with all the acquisition policies contained in said federal act.
S.D. Codified Laws § 5-2-18
Relocation benefits and assistance in acquisition of property--Compliance with federal act
Applied in 3 court decisions — leading case Long v. State of S.D. (2017)
Most recently applied in Long v. State of S.D. (November 2017)
Source: SL 1972, ch 136; SL 1988, ch 48, § 1.
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Official source: South Dakota Legislature. Reproduced from public-domain South Dakota statutes; confirm against the official source for the current text. Not legal advice.