State of South Dakota  
EIGHTY-EIGHTH SESSION
LEGISLATIVE ASSEMBLY, 2013  

636U0365   HOUSE BILL   NO.  1077  

Introduced by:    Representatives Bartling, Gosch, Johns, Olson (Betty), Rounds, Tulson, and Wink and Senators Kirkeby, Hunhoff (Jean), Lederman, Maher, Rhoden, and Tieszen
 

        FOR AN ACT ENTITLED, An Act to repeal certain provisions requiring railroad companies to file maps with county officials.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF SOUTH DAKOTA:
    Section 1. That § 10-28-19 be repealed.
    10-28-19. Every railroad company shall keep on file, with the county auditor of each county through or into which its line or lines of railroad run, a map showing correctly the right-of-way, length of sidetracks outside the corporate limits of municipalities, depot grounds, yard room, gravel or sand beds, and lands for snow protection, and lands otherwise actually and necessarily used by it in the maintenance and operation of its railway at the date of filing such map showing lots or parts of lots and blocks in municipalities and the number of acres in each government subdivision, and it shall be the duty of the county auditor to provide for the exception from assessment by the director of equalization of all such right-of-way, depot grounds, yard room, gravel or sand beds, and lands for snow protection, or land otherwise actually and necessarily used in the operation of its railway.
    Section 2. That § 10-28-20 be repealed.
    10-28-20. It shall be the duty of the register of deeds of the county to notify the county auditor of any deed to any railroad company for the right-of-way, depot grounds, yard room, gravel or sand beds, or lands for snow protection, that may be filed in his office for record so that the same may be entered by such county auditor on such map for the purposes mentioned in § 10-28-19.