Each building in which plumbing fixtures are installed shall connect to a public water supply system if available. A public water system is available to a premise used for human occupancy if the property line of the premise is within two hundred feet of the system. A municipality may purchase, lease with purchase option, lease, or otherwise acquire from the owners, any preexisting private wells located within the municipality. The provisions of this section do not apply to municipalities of the first class . Nothing in this section requires any municipality to provide any municipal service outside of its municipal boundaries.
S.D. Codified Laws § 9-47-28
Connection of plumbing fixtures to public water supply system--Purchase or lease of preexisting private wells by municipalities--Exemption of first class municipalities
Applied in 1 court decision — leading case Verry v. City of Belle Fourche (1999)
Most recently applied in Verry v. City of Belle Fourche (July 1999)
Source: SL 1989, ch 80, § 1; SL 2000, ch 39, § 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.