Every municipality shall have power to require the owner of abutting property to remove snow and ice from sidewalks and weeds from parking, and to provide for their removal and for taxing the expense thereof by special assessment against the abutting property.
S.D. Codified Laws § 9-30-5
Snow removal--Weed removal--Expense paid by special assessment
Applied in 3 court decisions — leading case Murray v. City of Sioux Falls (1989)
Most recently applied in Patitucci v. City of Hill City & Granite Sports Inc. (August 2013)
Source: RPolC 1903, § 1229, subdiv 14; SL 1907, ch 95; SL 1913, ch 119, § 53, subdiv 15; RC 1919, § 6169 (46); SDC 1939, § 45.0201 (45).
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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.