9-29-1. Territorial jurisdiction of municipalities. Every municipality shall have power to exercise jurisdiction for all authorized purposes over all territory within the corporate limits and over any public ground or park belonging to the municipality, whether within or without the corporate limits, and in and over all places, except within the corporate limits of another […]
9-29-10. Begging. A municipality may regulate the practice of begging. Source: SL 1890, ch 37, art V, §1, subdiv 59; RPolC 1903, §1229, subdiv 59; SL 1909, ch 50; SL 1913, ch 119, §53, subdiv 59; RC 1919, §6169 (63); SDC 1939, §45.0201 (26); SL 1981, ch 44, §32; SL 1982, ch 77.
9-29-11. Cruelty to animals. Every municipality shall have power to prohibit and punish cruelty to animals. Source: SL 1890, ch 37, art V, §1, subdiv 58; RPolC 1903, §1229, subdiv 58; SL 1913, ch 119, §53, subdiv 58; RC 1919, §6169 (39); SDC 1939, §45.0201 (46).
9-29-12. Animals running at large–Pounds–Dog licenses. Every municipality shall have power to regulate or prohibit the running at large of dogs, animals, and poultry, to establish pounds, appoint poundmasters, and regulate the impounding of animals, and to impose a tax or license on dogs running at large. Source: SL 1890, ch 37, art V, §1, […]
9-29-13. Abatement of nuisances. Every municipality shall have power to declare what shall constitute a nuisance and prevent, abate, and remove the same. Source: SL 1890, ch 37, art V, §1, subdiv 60; RPolC 1903, §1229, subdiv 60; RPolC 1903, §1438, subdiv 4; SL 1913, ch 119, §53, subdiv 60; RC 1919, §6169 (40); SDC […]
9-29-14. Fences and party walls. Every municipality shall have power to regulate partition fences and party walls. Source: SL 1890, ch 37, art V, §1, subdiv 48; RPolC 1903, §1229, subdiv 48; SL 1913, ch 119, §53, subdiv 48; RC 1919, §6169 (28); SDC 1939, §45.0201 (49).
9-29-15. Interference with radio reception. Every municipality shall have power to regulate the installation and operation of motors and other electrical or mechanical devices so as to prevent interference with radio reception. Source: SL 1929, ch 196; SDC 1939, §45.0201 (50).
9-29-16. Police powers of mayor, commissioners, and town marshals. The mayor of a first or second class municipality having a common council, each member of a board of city commissioners, and each town marshal shall possess, within the jurisdiction of the municipality, all the powers conferred by law upon sheriffs to suppress disorder and keep […]
9-29-17. Mayor’s power to summon aid in preserving order. The mayor of every first or second class municipality shall have the power, when necessary, to call upon every inhabitant of the municipality over the age of eighteen years to aid in enforcing the laws and ordinances, and to call out any organized militia within the […]
9-29-18. Duties of chief of police. The chief of police shall perform such duties as shall be prescribed by the governing body for the preservation of the peace. Source: SL 1890, ch 37, art XIII, §1; RPolC 1903, §1282; SL 1913, ch 119, §101; RC 1919, §6301; SL 1923, ch 239, §1; SDC 1939, §45.1133.
9-29-19. Powers of policemen–Arrest. All policemen of any municipality shall possess the powers of constables. They may pursue and arrest any person fleeing from justice in any part of the state, and when performing the duties aforesaid may arrest and detain any person guilty of any breach of the peace or any violation of the […]
9-29-19.1. Arrest for ordinance violation–Complaint–Release on promise to appear. Whenever any person is arrested for a violation of any municipal ordinance, which occurs in the presence of the arresting law enforcement officer, such officer may take the name and address of the person arrested and issue a complaint or otherwise notify him in writing to […]
9-29-2. Regulation of police of municipality. Every municipality shall have power to regulate the police of the municipality and pass and enforce all necessary police ordinances. Source: SL 1913, ch 119, §53, subdiv 56; RC 1919, §6169 (34); SDC 1939, §45.0201 (23).
9-29-20. Powers of sheriff or constable within municipality. The sheriff or any constable of the county or counties in which the municipality is situated may serve any process or make any arrest authorized to be made by any municipal officer. Source: SL 1890, ch 37, art V, §6; RPolC 1903, §1233; SL 1913, ch 119, […]
9-29-21. Salaried police receiving fees for criminal process as misdemeanor. It is a Class 2 misdemeanor for any chief of police or other policeman receiving a salary for services to charge or receive any fee or compensation for the service of any process issued out of any court of this state in any criminal case. […]
9-29-22. Costs in unsuccessful prosecutions for ordinance violations. In any action prosecuted by the city attorney for the violation of any municipal ordinance, if unsuccessful, the municipality shall pay the costs. Source: SL 1907, ch 191, §25; SL 1909, ch 176, §12; SL 1915, ch 151, §1; RC 1919, §6314; SDC 1939, §45.1141; SL 1947, […]
9-29-23. Release and remission of penalties for ordinance violations. The mayor in first or second class municipalities having a common council, and the governing body in all other municipalities may release any person imprisoned for violation of any ordinance or remit any fine or penalty for violation thereof, the reasons therefor being made a matter […]
9-29-24. Municipal jail–Use of county jail. Every municipality shall have power to establish, maintain, and regulate a jail or, with the consent of the board of county commissioners, to use the county jail for the confinement of persons charged with or convicted of the violation of any ordinance. Source: SL 1903, ch 94; SL 1913, […]
9-29-25. City workhouse–Purposes for which used. Every first or second class municipality shall have power to establish, maintain, and regulate a city jail, house of correction, and workhouse for the confinement and reformation of disorderly persons, vagrants, tramps, and idle persons, and persons convicted of violating any ordinance of the municipality, and appoint necessary jailers […]
9-29-26. Family day care homes–Regulation and standards of care. Notwithstanding the provisions of §§26-6-14.1 and 26-6-14.2, any municipality may provide for the regulation of family day care homes and may adopt standards of care including but not limited to the qualifications of personnel engaged in providing family day care homes; requirements relating to safety, sanitation, […]
