Court Opinion

ID: 9704446
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-08-26 00:36:08.925935+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T18:22:02.496110
License: Public Domain

WOLLMAN, Justice
(concurring in part, dissenting in part).
I agree with the holding that SDCL 31-29-41.1 is an unconstitutional delegation of legislative power. I would not say the same with respect to SDCL 31-29-41, however. Although there is no specific definition of “unzoned commercial and industrial areas” set forth in SDCL 31-29-39, those are areas within which signs, displays and advertising devices may be located by agreement between the state and the United States Secretary of Transportation subject to the limitations established in 31-29-40. SDCL 31-29-19(5). SDCL 31-29-39 imposes upon the Department of Transportation the duty to maximize the number of locations permissible for outdoor advertising and the duty to have the areas to be designated as unzoned commercial or industrial areas made as large as permissible. Within those areas the Department of Transportation may not agree to any regulation which is more restrictive than the usages specified in SDCL 31-29-40. When read together with SDCL 31-29-19 and 31-29-40, the reference to unzoned commercial and industrial areas set forth in SDCL 31-29-39, although concededly not very definite, imposes upon the Department of Transportation the duty to maximize the number and size of the areas within which outdoor advertising is to be permitted. Accordingly, I would hold that the imprecision in SDCL 31-29-39 is not so great as to invalidate SDCL 31-29-41.
Under my view of the case, then, I would hold that SDCL 31-29-41.1 is severable from the remaining portions of SDCL 31— 29.