FOR AN ACT ENTITLED, An Act to authorize township boards to increase the front foot
assessment for road maintenance, repairs, and improvements and to revise certain provisions
concerning road districts established by townships.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF SOUTH DAKOTA:
Section 1. That § 31-13-51 be amended to read as follows:
31-13-51. The township board of supervisors or, in the case of any township which is no
longer organized, the board of county commissioners, prior to the assessment of real property
within the township, or unorganized township, for the next fiscal year, may levy annually for
the purpose of maintaining or repairing street surfaces, whether of a permanent type or not, a
special front foot assessment not to exceed
eighty cents two dollars per front foot upon the real
property fronting and abutting the roadway. Such assessment shall be apportioned on a front
foot basis and shall be levied pursuant to § 31-13-52. If the board of county commissioners is
levying a special assessment on real property pursuant to this section, the board of county
commissioners shall perform the duties, as applicable, that are required of the township board
of supervisors pursuant to §§ 31-13-32 to 31-13-54, inclusive.
Section 2. That § 31-13-15 be amended to read as follows:
31-13-15. Each organized township in the state has power to may divide the township roads
or streets in said the township into road districts which shall include not more than one-half:
(3) Five miles of streets in a rural subdivision as defined in § 31-13-32.
Section 3. That § 31-13-17 be amended to read as follows:
31-13-17. At the time and place of hearing pursuant to § 31-13-16, the board of supervisors
shall consider the petition
and if in the opinion of. If the supervisors
determine it
shall be
considered advisable,
they the supervisors may
, by resolution
, assess such properties in the road
district for purposes of road improvement for
such an amount as the supervisors determine
advisable
,. The assessment may not
to exceed the amount set forth in the petition and in no
event
more than seventy-five cents may the assessment exceed two dollars a foot front in any
one calendar year.
Such assessments The assessment shall be certified to the county and
collected as a part of the real estate taxes against the property so assessed and
shall may only
be used by the township
only for the purpose of road improvement in the road district, or part
thereof, in which assessed.