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.
Structure South Dakota Codified Laws
Title 31 - Highways and Bridges
Chapter 12 - County Highway Systems
Section 31-12-1 - Established highway systems perpetuated.
Section 31-12-2 - Change of county highway system--Order of Department of Transportation.
Section 31-12-5 - Supervision of construction, improvement, maintenance, and repair of system.
Section 31-12-6 - County system at expense of entire county--Tax levy.
Section 31-12-7 - Division of system into sections--Recording in county road book or database.
Section 31-12-8 - Survey and report by superintendent on condition of system and structures.
Section 31-12-9 - Survey, plans, specifications, and estimates for permanent improvements.
Section 31-12-11 - Commencement of construction work.
Section 31-12-12 - Small projects--Advertising, private contract, or county work permitted.
Section 31-12-13 - Large projects--Advertising for bids or built by day labor--Rejection of bids.
Section 31-12-14 - Deadline for bids--Advertisement--Rejection of bids.
Section 31-12-15 - Written contract--Performance bond.
Section 31-12-16 - Progress payments permitted.
Section 31-12-17 - Superintendent's approval of bills before payment.
Section 31-12-18 - Width of culverts.
Section 31-12-25 - Establishment of witness corners required--Violation as petty offense.
Section 31-12-26 - Responsibility for secondary roads in unorganized territory.
Section 31-12-27 - Tax levy for secondary roads in unorganized territory.
Section 31-12-41 - Contracts for county maintenance of streets and alleys in municipalities.
Section 31-12-42 - Vehicle license collections to be used outside municipalities.
Section 31-12-43 - Indemnity required for construction or survey work within road right-of-way.
Section 31-12-44 - Repairs for wind and water erosion assessed to private landowner.
Section 31-12-46 - Minimum maintenance roads established.
Section 31-12-47 - Posting notification of minimum maintenance road.
Section 31-12-48 - Designation of no maintenance highway--Removal of manmade obstruction.
Section 31-12-49 - Posting of signs along no maintenance highway.
Section 31-12-50 - No maintenance highway open to public access--No duty to maintain or improve.