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Interstate Drainage Districts (South Dakota Codified Laws: Title 46A Water Management; Chapter 46A-13)

Country/Territory
United States of America
Territorial subdivision
South Dakota
Document type
Legislation
Date
2018
Source
FAO, FAOLEX
Subject
Water
Keyword
Drainage/land reclamation Local government Governance Procedural matters Court/tribunal Property rights Water rights
Geographical area
Americas, Arctic, East Pacific, North America, North Atlantic
Abstract

This chapter of South Dakota Codified Laws concerns interstate drainage districts. It provides that at least fifty affected South Dakota resident landowners, or the county commissioners of any affected county, may file a petition with the clerk of the circuit court for the affected county requesting the formation of a drainage district as provided in this chapter. The provisions of this section apply to any land bordering upon any body of water or stream forming the boundary line between this state and any other state, or any land included in a natural drainage basin along or extending across the boundary line of the state. For purposes of this section, an affected county is a county that lies within or partly within such territory, and an affected landowner is a South Dakota resident landowner who owns at least ten acres of such land as shown by the records of the register of deeds and clerk of courts of the county in which the land is situated. If the land is sold under a contract for deed, which is of record in the office of the register of deeds, both the landowner and the individual purchaser of the land, as named in the contract for deed, shall be treated as owners of the territory described in the petition.

Full text
English
Website
sdlegislature.gov