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SD Codified L § 31-11-45 (2021)
2021 South Dakota Codified Laws|Title 31 - Highways and Bridges|Chapter 11 - County Highway Department And Funds|Section 31-11-45 - Maximum maintenance authorization on private roads.

31-11-45. Maximum maintenance authorization on private roads.If the board of county commissioners agrees to maintain private roads pursuant to §§31-11-41 to 31-11-44, inclusive, the board may establish a maximum number of hours of maintenance, or miles of road that the board will authorize. Source: SL 1994, ch 238, §4A.
SD Codified L § 31-12-1 (2021)
2021 South Dakota Codified Laws|Title 31 - Highways and Bridges|Chapter 12 - County Highway Systems|Section 31-12-1 - Established highway systems perpetuated.

31-12-1. Established highway systems perpetuated.The county highway system as heretofore designated and established in each organized county of the state is hereby perpetuated. Source: SL 1919, ch 333, §10; SDC 1939, §28.0301.
SD Codified L § 31-12-2 (2021)
2021 South Dakota Codified Laws|Title 31 - Highways and Bridges|Chapter 12 - County Highway Systems|Section 31-12-2 - Change of county highway system--Order of Department of Transportation.

31-12-2. Change of county highway system--Order of Department of Transportation.Except for minimum maintenance roads established pursuant to §31-12-46, no county highway system may be changed, altered, or modified except by authority of and in accordance with a written executive order of the Department of Transportation. Any such change shall be shown on the map of the county highway system in an office designated by the board of county commissioners and on such map in the Department of Transportation. Source: SDC 1939, §28.0302; SL 1941, ch 129; SL 1997, ch 176, §3; SL 2013, ch 130, §1.
SD Codified L § 31-12-5 (2021)
2021 South Dakota Codified Laws|Title 31 - Highways and Bridges|Chapter 12 - County Highway Systems|Section 31-12-5 - Supervision of construction, improvement, maintenance, and repair of system.

31-12-5. Supervision of construction, improvement, maintenance, and repair of system.The construction, improvement, maintenance, and repair of the county highway system, except as provided for state trunk highways shall be under the supervision of the county superintendent of highways in organized counties, who shall formulate and direct the policy of the county for the construction, improvement, maintenance, and repair of the county highway system. Source: SL 1919, ch 333, §16; SDC 1939, §28.0303.
SD Codified L § 31-12-6 (2021)
2021 South Dakota Codified Laws|Title 31 - Highways and Bridges|Chapter 12 - County Highway Systems|Section 31-12-6 - County system at expense of entire county--Tax levy.

31-12-6. County system at expense of entire county--Tax levy.The county highway system shall be permanently constructed and improved, and shall be maintained and repaired at the expense of the whole county, and the funds necessary therefor shall be levied and collected in the same manner as other county taxes, and it shall be the duty of the board of county commissioners to determine upon and make such levy in the manner now provided by law. Source: SL 1919, ch 333, §16; SDC 1939, §28.0303.
SD Codified L § 31-12-7 (2021)
2021 South Dakota Codified Laws|Title 31 - Highways and Bridges|Chapter 12 - County Highway Systems|Section 31-12-7 - Division of system into sections--Recording in county road book or database.

31-12-7. Division of system into sections--Recording in county road book or database.The county highway superintendent shall maintain in a county road book or database a complete record of the divisions of the county highway system into sections, each section being designated by some appropriate number, name, or letter, and the starting point and terminus of each section being clearly designated at length. Source: SL 1919, ch 333, §20; SDC 1939, §28.0306; SL 2018, ch 168, §15.
SD Codified L § 31-12-8 (2021)
2021 South Dakota Codified Laws|Title 31 - Highways and Bridges|Chapter 12 - County Highway Systems|Section 31-12-8 - Survey and report by superintendent on condition of system and structures.

31-12-8. Survey and report by superintendent on condition of system and structures.The board of county commissioners may, if it deems it expedient, direct the county highway superintendent to make or cause to be made a survey and report upon all or parts of the county highway system for the purpose of ascertaining the condition of the parts thereof and of obtaining a record of existing structures and their condition. Source: SL 1919, ch 333, §20; SDC 1939, §28.0306.
SD Codified L § 31-12-9 (2021)
2021 South Dakota Codified Laws|Title 31 - Highways and Bridges|Chapter 12 - County Highway Systems|Section 31-12-9 - Survey, plans, specifications, and estimates for permanent improvements.

31-12-9. Survey, plans, specifications, and estimates for permanent improvements.Before any permanent improvement is undertaken upon the county highway system, the county highway superintendent shall, under the general direction of the board of county commissioners where deemed necessary, make or have made a survey and prepare or have prepared plans, specifications, and estimates for the improvement. Unless the county has adopted its own standards, the survey, plans, specifications, and estimates shall be prepared according to standards to be prescribed by the Transportation Commission, and shall be on the basis and with the object in view of permanent improvement, each as to bridge, culvert, tile, and road work. Source: SL 1919, ch 333, §20; SDC 1939, §28.0306; SL 2018, ch 168, §16.
SD Codified L § 31-12-11 (2021)
2021 South Dakota Codified Laws|Title 31 - Highways and Bridges|Chapter 12 - County Highway Systems|Section 31-12-11 - Commencement of construction work.

31-12-11. Commencement of construction work.After the survey and plan for each section of the county highway system has been prepared by or for the county highway superintendent, and specifications and an estimate of the cost therefor also prepared and approved by the board of county commissioners, such board of county commissioners may thereupon proceed as provided in this chapter with the construction of the road, tile, and culvert work in accordance therewith. Source: SL 1919, ch 333, §23; SDC 1939, §28.0308.
SD Codified L § 31-12-12 (2021)
2021 South Dakota Codified Laws|Title 31 - Highways and Bridges|Chapter 12 - County Highway Systems|Section 31-12-12 - Small projects--Advertising, private contract, or county work permitted.

31-12-12. Small projects--Advertising, private contract, or county work permitted.Any road, tile, or culvert construction, repair work, or materials upon the county highway system, for which the county highway superintendent's estimated cost equals or is less than the amount provided for in §5-18A-14, may be advertised and let at a public letting by the board of county commissioners, may be let privately at a cost not to exceed the county highway superintendent's estimate, or may be built by day labor. Source: SDC 1939, §28.0309; SL 1972, ch 32, §3; SL 1982, ch 223, §1A; SL 1987, ch 211, §1; SL 2011, ch 2, §133.
SD Codified L § 31-12-13 (2021)
2021 South Dakota Codified Laws|Title 31 - Highways and Bridges|Chapter 12 - County Highway Systems|Section 31-12-13 - Large projects--Advertising for bids or built by day labor--Rejection of bids.

31-12-13. Large projects--Advertising for bids or built by day labor--Rejection of bids.Any road, tile, or culvert construction, repair work, or materials on the county highway system, for which the county highway superintendent's estimated cost exceeds the amount provided in §5-18A-14, shall be advertised and let at a public letting by the board of county commissioners or may be built by day labor. The board may reject all bids, in which case the board may readvertise and let at a public letting. Source: SDC 1939, §28.0309; SL 1982, ch 223, §2; SL 1987, ch 211, §2; SL 2011, ch 2, §134; SL 2018, ch 168, §18.
SD Codified L § 31-12-14 (2021)
2021 South Dakota Codified Laws|Title 31 - Highways and Bridges|Chapter 12 - County Highway Systems|Section 31-12-14 - Deadline for bids--Advertisement--Rejection of bids.

31-12-14. Deadline for bids--Advertisement--Rejection of bids.If the cost of any road, bridge, tile, or culvert construction, repair work, or materials upon a county highway system or secondary roads exceeds the amount provided for in §5-18A-14 or any less amount for which work bids are to be called for, and after plans and specifications therefor have been prepared and filed in the office of the county auditor, the board having charge shall designate a time not less than twenty days from the date of such filing, at which sealed bids for such work or materials will be received. The board shall cause notice thereof to be published once each week for two successive weeks in one of the official newspapers of the county. The notice shall state where plans and specifications may be examined, when and where bids will be opened, a brief statement of the principal items of work and materials contemplated by the improvement, and the location of the same, the amount of the certified check or bidder's bond to be required, and such further notice as the board having supervision may deem advisable. Bids may be received at any special or regular meeting of the board. The board may refuse to accept any bids submitted. Source: SDC 1939, §28.0115; SL 1972, ch 32, §4; SL 1982, ch 223, §1B; SL 1987, ch 211, §3; SL 1993, ch 218, §1; SL 2011, ch 2, §135.
SD Codified L § 31-12-15 (2021)
2021 South Dakota Codified Laws|Title 31 - Highways and Bridges|Chapter 12 - County Highway Systems|Section 31-12-15 - Written contract--Performance bond.

31-12-15. Written contract--Performance bond.When any bid, as provided for in §31-12-14 has been accepted, the board of county commissioners, county highway board, or board of township supervisors, as the case may be, shall enter into a contract with the person whose bid has been accepted. The contract shall be in writing specifying the work to be done or the materials to be furnished, or both, the time for completion, and the contract price or rate of payments. The board shall require the person receiving the contract to furnish a bond with approved sureties, and in an amount the board considers sufficient, conditioned upon the faithful performance of the contract according to the plans and specifications. Source: SL 1919, ch 333, §26; SDC 1939, §28.0116; SL 1984, ch 207, §38.
SD Codified L § 31-12-16 (2021)
2021 South Dakota Codified Laws|Title 31 - Highways and Bridges|Chapter 12 - County Highway Systems|Section 31-12-16 - Progress payments permitted.

31-12-16. Progress payments permitted.On any contracts provided for in §31-12-15, partial payments may be made during the progress of the work upon estimates prepared by the county highway superintendent, but in no case shall partial payments exceed ninety percent of the value of the labor and materials incorporated in the work, or materials furnished, as the case may be. Source: SL 1919, ch 333, §27; SDC 1939, §28.0117; SL 1966, ch 81.
SD Codified L § 31-12-17 (2021)
2021 South Dakota Codified Laws|Title 31 - Highways and Bridges|Chapter 12 - County Highway Systems|Section 31-12-17 - Superintendent's approval of bills before payment.

31-12-17. Superintendent's approval of bills before payment.All bills for road construction work on the county highway system shall be filed in itemized form and certified to by the county highway superintendent before being allowed by the board of county commissioners, and before warrants in payment therefor are drawn by the county auditor. Source: SL 1919, ch 333, §28; SDC 1939, §28.0310.
SD Codified L § 31-12-18 (2021)
2021 South Dakota Codified Laws|Title 31 - Highways and Bridges|Chapter 12 - County Highway Systems|Section 31-12-18 - Width of culverts.

31-12-18. Width of culverts.Each culvert constructed on the county highway system shall have a width of not less than twenty-four feet. Source: SL 1919, ch 333, §20; SDC 1939, §28.0306; SL 2018, ch 168, §19.
SD Codified L § 31-12-24 (2021)
2021 South Dakota Codified Laws|Title 31 - Highways and Bridges|Chapter 12 - County Highway Systems|Section 31-12-24 - Supervision of maintenance work by superintendent--Payments from road and bridge fund.

31-12-24. Supervision of maintenance work by superintendent--Payments from road and bridge fund.The county highway superintendent is hereby charged with the actual direction and supervision of all maintenance work in the county and shall keep a record of the costs of such work and certify to the correctness of all claims for such work, except for the purchase of machinery.Payment for maintenance work shall be made on warrants drawn upon the county road and bridge fund. Source: SL 1919, ch 333, §43; SDC 1939, §28.0312.
SD Codified L § 31-12-25 (2021)
2021 South Dakota Codified Laws|Title 31 - Highways and Bridges|Chapter 12 - County Highway Systems|Section 31-12-25 - Establishment of witness corners required--Violation as petty offense.

31-12-25. Establishment of witness corners required--Violation as petty offense.Whenever it may become necessary in grading highways to make a cut which will disturb or destroy, or a fill which will cover up, a government or other established corner, it shall be the duty of the county highway superintendent to establish permanent witness corners and make a record of the same, which shall show the distance and directions the witness corner is from the corner disturbed or covered up. Any county highway superintendent who fails to perform his duty under this section commits a petty offense. Source: SL 1919, ch 333, §21; SDC 1939, §§28.0307, 28.9902.
SD Codified L § 31-12-26 (2021)
2021 South Dakota Codified Laws|Title 31 - Highways and Bridges|Chapter 12 - County Highway Systems|Section 31-12-26 - Responsibility for secondary roads in unorganized territory.

31-12-26. Responsibility for secondary roads in unorganized territory.Each board of county commissioners and county superintendent of highways in organized counties shall construct, repair, and maintain all secondary roads within the counties not included in any municipality, organized civil township, improvement district organized pursuant to chapter 7-25A, or county road district organized pursuant to chapter 31-12A. Source: SDC 1939, §28.0408; SL 1992, ch 60, §2; SL 1995, ch 170, §1; SL 2011, ch 136, §1.
SD Codified L § 31-12-27 (2021)
2021 South Dakota Codified Laws|Title 31 - Highways and Bridges|Chapter 12 - County Highway Systems|Section 31-12-27 - Tax levy for secondary roads in unorganized territory.

31-12-27. Tax levy for secondary roads in unorganized territory.Each board of county commissioners may levy annually a tax upon the taxable property within the county not included in any municipality, organized civil township, improvement district organized pursuant to chapter 7-25A, or county road district organized pursuant to chapter 31-12A, to carry out the provisions of §31-12-26. If a county levies a tax, the tax shall be certified, become payable and delinquent, and, if not paid, shall draw interest and penalty as other county taxes. The tax shall be used for such purposes. Source: SDC 1939, §28.0408; SL 1992, ch 60, §2; SL 1995, ch 170, §2; SL 2002, ch 143, §1; SL 2011, ch 136, §2.
SD Codified L § 31-12-27.1 (2021)
2021 South Dakota Codified Laws|Title 31 - Highways and Bridges|Chapter 12 - County Highway Systems|Section 31-12-27.1 - Contracts with residents for county road construction and maintenance--Petition--Work performed by highway department or private contract--Payment.

31-12-27.1. Contracts with residents for county road construction and maintenance--Petition--Work performed by highway department or private contract--Payment.Any county may contract with residents served by county roads for the construction, maintenance, and improvement of county roads or any portion thereof serving county residents. If the board of county commissioners, upon a petition by a resident within the county, filed in the office of the county auditor of the county, determines that it is in the best interest of the petitioner and in the public interest that the petitioner enter into an agreement in writing with the board of county commissioners of such county for the construction, maintenance, or improvement of county roads or any portion thereof, the board of county commissioners may enter into an agreement in writing with the petitioner to construct, maintain, or improve any such county road or portion thereof to be specifically designated, at and for a price to be paid to the county to be expressed in the agreement. If the board of county commissioners determines that it is in the public interest to enter into such an agreement, the board may do so and the county may, by and through its highway department and with the personnel and equipment thereof or by privately let contract pursuant to §5-18A-9, perform or cause to be performed such construction, maintenance, and improvement specified in the written agreement under the supervision and control of the county highway superintendent. The prices specified in the contract shall be paid to the county or if privately let, to the person performing the work by the resident petitioning upon estimates certified to by the county highway superintendent. Source: SL 1977, ch 240; SL 2011, ch 2, §136.
SD Codified L § 31-12-41 (2021)
2021 South Dakota Codified Laws|Title 31 - Highways and Bridges|Chapter 12 - County Highway Systems|Section 31-12-41 - Contracts for county maintenance of streets and alleys in municipalities.

31-12-41. Contracts for county maintenance of streets and alleys in municipalities.Counties are authorized to contract with municipalities within their respective boundaries for the maintenance of public streets and alleys or any portion thereof within said municipalities. Whenever it shall be made to appear to the board of county commissioners of any county by a resolution of any municipality within the county, duly adopted, copy of which resolution shall be filed in the office of the county auditor of the county of which such municipality is located that it will be to the best interests of such municipality and in the public interest that the municipality enter into an agreement in writing with the board of county commissioners of such county for the maintenance of any public street or alley or any portion thereof, the board of county commissioners may, in its discretion, enter into an agreement in writing with the governing body of such municipality to maintain any such street or alley, to be specifically designated, at and for a price to be paid to the county to be expressed in the agreement for such maintenance. If it shall appear to the board of county commissioners that it will be to the public interest to enter into such an agreement, it shall be lawful for it so to do, and such county, by and through its highway department and with the personnel and equipment thereof, perform, or cause to be performed, for such municipality such maintenance specified in said agreement and such maintenance to be done under the supervision and control of the county highway superintendent. The prices specified in said contract shall be paid to the said county by the municipality upon estimates certified to by the county highway superintendent in the same manner as other obligations of the municipality are paid. Source: SL 1945, ch 120, §1; SDC Supp 1960, §12.1809.
SD Codified L § 31-12-42 (2021)
2021 South Dakota Codified Laws|Title 31 - Highways and Bridges|Chapter 12 - County Highway Systems|Section 31-12-42 - Vehicle license collections to be used outside municipalities.

31-12-42. Vehicle license collections to be used outside municipalities. The portion of the county road and bridge fund derived from motor vehicle license collections credited pursuant to § 32-11-4.1 shall be used by the board of county commissioners for constructing and maintaining county highways outside the limits of municipalities, and also for constructing and maintaining secondary roads. Source: SL 1913, ch 276, §32; SL 1915, ch 253, §7; RC 1919, §8664; SL 1919, ch 333, §68; SL 1920 (SS), ch 89; SL 1925, ch 231; SDC 1939, §28.0313; SL 2018, ch 168, §36; SL 2021, ch 125, § 1.
SD Codified L § 31-12-43 (2021)
2021 South Dakota Codified Laws|Title 31 - Highways and Bridges|Chapter 12 - County Highway Systems|Section 31-12-43 - Indemnity required for construction or survey work within road right-of-way.

31-12-43. Indemnity required for construction or survey work within road right-of-way.A county may require any person performing construction or survey work within any county road right-of-way which may damage such right-of-way to furnish an indemnity bond in a reasonable amount as determined by the board of county commissioners to indemnify the county for any damage done beyond normal wear. However, if a registered professional engineer or a registered land surveyor is surveying land, as defined in 36-18A-4, for an individual landowner of the county, the provisions of this section do not apply. Source: SL 1984, ch 213, §2; SL 1987, ch 29, §11.
SD Codified L § 31-12-44 (2021)
2021 South Dakota Codified Laws|Title 31 - Highways and Bridges|Chapter 12 - County Highway Systems|Section 31-12-44 - Repairs for wind and water erosion assessed to private landowner.

31-12-44. Repairs for wind and water erosion assessed to private landowner.If any landowner fails to prevent damage to the county's highway system caused by severe and persistent wind or water erosion on the landowner's property, the county may repair the damage and assess the cost of the repairs against the landowner. If the landowner fails to pay the cost of the repairs before the first day of November in the year in which the repairs are performed, the cost shall be assessed against the landowner's property. Source: SL 1991, ch 233, §1.
SD Codified L § 31-12-45 (2021)
2021 South Dakota Codified Laws|Title 31 - Highways and Bridges|Chapter 12 - County Highway Systems|Section 31-12-45 - Approval of conservation district for repair of erosion damage--declaration--notice to landowner.

31-12-45. Approval of conservation district for repair of erosion damage--declaration--notice to landowner.No operations to repair erosion damage pursuant to §31-12-44 may be undertaken by the county unless the conservation district in which the land is located has by resolution approved such action and until a notice that the erosion on the lands constitutes a nuisance has been given to the owner by the county. Notice shall be given by personal service upon the owner or by personal service upon the person in actual possession of the premises, with a copy of the declaration filed in the office of the county auditor. The declaration shall state that unless the owner corrects the damage within thirty days of the declaration, repairs shall be undertaken by the county, and the cost shall be assessed against the landowner's property if not paid before the first of November. The resolution of assessment shall be recorded in the minutes of the board of county commissioners, the original delivered by the clerk of the board to the county auditor, and a copy sent by registered mail to the landowner at the address shown on the records of the county auditor and to the operator. Source: SL 1991, ch 233, §2; SL 1992, ch 203, §1.
SD Codified L § 31-12-46 (2021)
2021 South Dakota Codified Laws|Title 31 - Highways and Bridges|Chapter 12 - County Highway Systems|Section 31-12-46 - Minimum maintenance roads established.

31-12-46. Minimum maintenance roads established.The board of county commissioners may designate any road on the county highway system as a minimum maintenance road if the board determines that the road or a segment of the road is used only occasionally or intermittently for passenger and commercial travel. The board shall identify the beginning and end points of the road designated as minimum maintenance. A minimum maintenance road may be maintained at a level less than the minimum standards for full maintenance roads, but shall be maintained at the level required to serve the occasional or intermittent traffic. Source: SL 1997, ch 176, §1.