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Section 9-32-19 – Acquisition of additional land for municipal cemetery.

9-32-19. Acquisition of additional land for municipal cemetery. Whenever the municipality operating a cemetery, perpetual care, or nonperpetual care, under the laws of this state, finds it necessary to extend the boundaries of such cemetery or acquire land removed from the present cemetery in order to provide for the burial of the dead, it shall […]

Section 9-32-20 – Use of perpetual care fund for land acquisition.

9-32-20. Use of perpetual care fund for land acquisition. If the municipality finds it necessary to extend the boundaries of such cemetery, or acquire land removed from the present cemetery, a portion of the perpetual care trust fund may be used under the following conditions: If the trust fund is in the amount of fifty […]

Section 9-32-20.1 – Use of perpetual care trust fund to maintain cemetery.

9-32-20.1. Use of perpetual care trust fund to maintain cemetery. Any municipality may expend a portion of the perpetual care trust fund to maintain the cemetery. However, only amounts in excess of fifty thousand dollars may be expended and used for cemetery purposes only. For expenditures in excess of five thousand dollars, notice of hearing […]

Section 9-32-21 – Repossession of unused and uncared for lots and mausoleums.

9-32-21. Repossession of unused and uncared for lots and mausoleums. The provisions of §47-29-9 relating to resales and transfers of unused and uncared for lots and mausoleums shall be equally applicable to cemeteries and mausoleums of a municipality and the provisions of this section shall be retroactive for any municipality who may have repossessed lots, […]

Section 9-32-22 – Severability of cemetery provisions.

9-32-22. Severability of cemetery provisions. If a part of §§9-32-14 to 9-32-21, inclusive, is invalid, all valid parts that are severable from the invalid part remain in effect. If a part of said sections is invalid in one or more of its applications, the part remains in effect in all valid applications that are severable […]

Section 9-33-1 – Storage of combustible material–Open fires–Fireworks.

9-33-1. Storage of combustible material–Open fires–Fireworks. Every municipality shall have power to regulate or prohibit the storage of combustible or explosive material, the use of open flame lights, the building of bonfires, and the use or sale of fireworks. Source: SL 1890, ch 37, art V, §1, subdiv 53; RPolC 1903, §1229, subdiv 53; SL […]

Section 9-33-2 – Fire limits for wooden buildings–Condemnation of damaged buildings.

9-33-2. Fire limits for wooden buildings–Condemnation of damaged buildings. Every municipality shall have power to prescribe the fire limits within which wooden buildings shall not be erected, placed, or repaired without permission, and to provide that when a building within such limits has been damaged by fire, decay, or otherwise to an extent of fifty […]

Section 9-33-3 – Lumber and combustible materials.

9-33-3. Lumber and combustible materials. Every municipality shall have power to regulate or prohibit the keeping of any lumberyard and the keeping or selling of any lumber or other combustible material within the fire limits. Source: SL 1890, ch 37, art V, §1, subdiv 74; RPolC 1903, §1229, subdiv 75; SL 1913, ch 119, §53, […]

Section 9-32-7 – Slaughterhouses, foundries, livery stables, and blacksmith shops.

9-32-7. Slaughterhouses, foundries, livery stables, and blacksmith shops. Every municipality shall have power to control the location and regulate the management and construction of packinghouses, slaughterhouses, renderies, bone and soap factories, foundries, livery stables, and blacksmith shops and to prohibit any offensive or unwholesome business or establishment within, or within one mile of the corporate […]

Section 9-32-8 – Protection of public water supply.

9-32-8. Protection of public water supply. Every municipality shall have power to prevent the pollution of or injury to any water supply belonging to the municipality or any public water supply within or within one mile of the limits of the municipality. Source: SL 1909, ch 158; RC 1919, §6169 (75); SDC 1939, §45.0201 (37).