An Act to revise the limitations on a municipality's power to take actions for the promotion of health or the suppression of disease.

Be it enacted by the Legislature of the State of South Dakota:

Section 1. That § 9-32-1 be AMENDED.

9-32-1. Promotion of health--Suppression of disease--Exception.

Every Each municipality shall have power to may do what may be is necessary or expedient for the promotion of health or the suppression of disease, so long as, in the absence of an act of martial law having been declared, any measure so taken, including by ordinance or a resolution, does not prohibit or interfere with the free exercise of religion, abridge any person's freedom of speech, or of the press, or of the right of the people to peaceably assemble, or of the right of the people to petition the government for a redress of grievances under the First Amendment to the United States Constitution, or prohibit or interfere with activities within any person's residence or privately held business, or interfere with any person's right to bear arms under the Second Amendment to the United States Constitution

Notwithstanding the provisions of this section, a municipality may require or conduct a safety inspection of real property within its jurisdiction at any time for health or safety purposes.