Every municipality shall have power to regulate the use of sidewalks, streets, alleys, wharves, parks, and public grounds, to provide for cleaning the same, to prevent and remove obstructions and encroachments upon the same, to prevent injury to the same, to regulate or prevent any practice having a tendency to annoy persons frequenting the same, and to regulate or prohibit structures under sidewalks and riding and driving thereon.
S.D. Codified Laws § 9-30-2
Regulation of use of public places--Cleaning--Obstructions and encroachments
Applied in 3 court decisions — leading case Rupert v. City of Rapid City (2013)
Most recently applied in Patitucci v. City of Hill City & Granite Sports Inc. (August 2013)
Source: PolC 1877, ch 24, § 22, subdiv 11; CL 1887, § 1043, subdiv 11; SL 1890, ch 37, art V, § 1, subdiv 9, 10, 12, 15 to 21, 74; RPolC 1903, § 1229, subdiv 10, 74; RPolC 1903,…
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