CHAPTER 67
(SB 71)
Landowner notice before certain planning commission activities
are undertaken on their land.
ENTITLED, An Act require notice to landowners before entry on private lands for certain planning commission functions.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF SOUTH DAKOTA:
Section 1. That ' 11-6-8 be amended to read as follows:
11-6-8. Information furnished by public officials -- Examinations and surveys -- General powers of commission.All public officials shall, upon request, furnish to the planning commission, within a reasonable time, such available information as it may require for its work. The commission, its members, and employees, in the performance of its functions, may, after thirty days written notice by certified mail to the landowner, enter upon any land, make examinations and surveys, and place and maintain necessary monuments and marks thereon. In general, the commission shall have all such powers as may be has all powers necessary to enable it to fulfill and perform its functions, promote municipal planning, or carry out all the purposes of this chapter.
Section 2. That chapter 11-2 be amended by adding thereto a NEW SECTION to read as follows:
All public officials shall, upon request, furnish to the county planning commission, within a reasonable time, such available information as it may require for its work. The commission, its members and employees, in the performance of its functions, may, after thirty days written notice by certified mail to the landowner, enter upon any land, make examinations and surveys, and place and maintain necessary monuments and marks thereon. In general, the commission has all such powers necessary to enable it to fulfill and perform its functions, promote county planning and zoning, or carry out all the purposes of this chapter.
Signed March 17, 1999.