31-13-18. Affidavit of township failure to maintain mail route--Service of affidavit and notice on township.
Whenever it shall appear by an affidavit filed by a patron of the mail route with the county auditor that a certain described secondary road in any township of the county is regularly used as part of a United States mail route, and is, in certain designated places, in urgent need of repairs to put such road in reasonably suitable condition for travel, or is, in certain designated places, likely to be made impassable by reason of the weeds along such highway not being cut, as provided by law, so as to prevent the forming of snowdrifts, or is in other respects not being suitably maintained as provided by law, and that the board of supervisors of the proper township has been notified of the condition complained of and has refused or neglected to attend thereto, it shall be the duty of the county auditor to cause copies of such affidavit to be served upon the clerk of the proper township and upon the chairman of the board of supervisors thereof, together with a notice that unless the repairs or maintenance referred to in the affidavit are attended to forthwith by such board and a certificate that the same has been done delivered to the county auditor, that such repairs or maintenance will be executed by the county at the expense of the township as in this chapter provided. Such copy and notice may be served by registered or certified mail.
Source: SL 1929, ch 154, §1; SDC 1939, §28.0407.
Structure South Dakota Codified Laws
Title 31 - Highways and Bridges
Section 31-13-1 - Township road system--Township board responsible for township roads.
Section 31-13-1.1 - Designation of minimum maintenance road--Level of maintenance.
Section 31-13-1.2 - Posting of warning signs on minimum maintenance roads.
Section 31-13-1.3 - Designation of full and minimum maintenance roads at annual meeting--Map.
Section 31-13-1.4 - Designation of no maintenance section line.
Section 31-13-1.5 - Posting of signs on no maintenance section line.
Section 31-13-1.6 - Designation of road unsafe for vehicle travel as no maintenance road.
Section 31-13-1.7 - Posting of signs that no vehicle travel is advised on no maintenance road.
Section 31-13-2 - Designation of board member as overseer--Compensation.
Section 31-13-3 - Hiring of help authorized.
Section 31-13-3.1 - Secondary road capital improvement fund.
Section 31-13-4 - Width of highway grades.
Section 31-13-7 - Written contracts required when let without advertising--Performance bond.
Section 31-13-8 - Payments on contracts.
Section 31-13-9 - Restriction on progress payments.
Section 31-13-10 - Township highway tax.
Section 31-13-11 - Township highway tax--Certification to county auditor--Collection.
Section 31-13-12 - County aid roads--Designation by county commissioners.
Section 31-13-13 - Joint contracts for construction and maintenance of township roads.
Section 31-13-14 - Motor vehicle license fees transferable to county.
Section 31-13-15 - Road districts.
Section 31-13-16 - Petition for improvement of road district--Notice to property owners.
Section 31-13-17 - Hearing on road district improvement--Assessments for improvement.
Section 31-13-19 - County maintenance and repair of mail route or failure by township.
Section 31-13-22 - Township snow removal reserve fund--Tax levy.
Section 31-13-23 - Intent of snow removal reserve fund law.
Section 31-13-24 - Expenditures from snow removal reserve fund.
Section 31-13-25 - Purposes of snow removal reserve fund.
Section 31-13-26 - Contracts for snow removal and repair of damages.
Section 31-13-27 - Snow removal contracts with or without advertising.
Section 31-13-27.1 - Snow creating emergency--Expenditures for removal without advertising for bids.
Section 31-13-28 - Accumulation of unexpended money as snow removal moneys.
Section 31-13-29 - Authority of township to open snowbound roads used for school bus routes.
Section 31-13-30 - Street improvements in unincorporated towns.
Section 31-13-32 - Improvement of platted streets by special assessment--Definition of terms.
Section 31-13-33 - Supervisors' resolution of necessity for improvement--Contents.
Section 31-13-34 - Combining of streets in one resolution--Uniformity required.
Section 31-13-35 - Combining of streets in one resolution when improvements not uniform.
Section 31-13-36 - Township assumption of cost--Referendum.
Section 31-13-37 - Publication of resolution--Notice of supervisors' meeting--Hearing of objections.
Section 31-13-38 - Resolution not requiring publication.
Section 31-13-39 - Notice by mail to property owners--Contents--Address to which sent.
Section 31-13-41 - Waiting period before actions on improvement--Ratification of prior actions.
Section 31-13-42 - Apportionment of benefits of improvement.
Section 31-13-43 - Costs paid by township--Deduction before assessment to property.
Section 31-13-44 - Assessment of costs to abutting property--Computation on front foot basis.
Section 31-13-45 - Assessment to nearby property of intersection costs.
Section 31-13-46 - Assessment according to special benefits--Investigation of benefits.
Section 31-13-47 - Intersection cost assumed by township.
Section 31-13-48 - Corner lot costs assumed by township or assessed to other property.
Section 31-13-49 - Cost assumed by township when street has been previously improved.
Section 31-13-50 - Use of special assessment law.
Section 31-13-51 - Annual front foot assessment for maintenance and repairs.
Section 31-13-52 - Levy of special assessments--Addition to general levy--Review and equalization.
Section 31-13-53 - Records maintained by township clerk--Destruction of certain records.
Section 31-13-55 - Indemnity requirement for construction or survey work within road right-of-way.
Section 31-13-57 - Private landowner assessed for erosion repair costs.