Section 9-29-22 – Costs in unsuccessful prosecutions for ordinance violations.
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, […]
Section 9-29-23 – Release and remission of penalties for ordinance violations.
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 […]
Section 9-29-24 – Municipal jail–Use of county jail.
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, […]
Section 9-29-25 – City workhouse–Purposes for which used.
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 […]
Section 9-29-26 – Family day care homes–Regulation and standards of care.
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, […]
Section 9-29-14 – Fences and party walls.
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).
Section 9-29-15 – Interference with radio reception.
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).
Section 9-29-16 – Police powers of mayor, commissioners, and town marshals.
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 […]
Section 9-29-17 – Mayor’s power to summon aid in preserving order.
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 […]
Section 9-29-18 – Duties of chief of police.
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.