31-27-20. Railroad right-of-way defined.
A railroad right-of-way consists not only of that strip of land, usually one hundred feet wide, over which the main track is laid but the adjacent extra width of land as may be necessary and useful for cuts, embankments, ditches for change of location of watercourses, and other works of a railroad, appropriate and necessary for railroad purposes.
Source: SDC 1939, §28.1106 (1) as enacted by SL 1945, ch 115; SL 2010, ch 145, §133.
Structure South Dakota Codified Laws
Title 31 - Highways and Bridges
Chapter 27 - Railroad Crossings
Section 31-27-3 - Filing required for establishment of crossing--Approval.
Section 31-27-5 - Expense of eliminating crossings.
Section 31-27-6 - Expense of land appropriated for relocation of crossings.
Section 31-27-7 - Determination to eliminate crossing when no right-of-way is needed.
Section 31-27-11 - Grading and approaches if no right-of-way needed.
Section 31-27-12 - Determination to eliminate dangerous crossing when new right-of-way is necessary.
Section 31-27-17 - Cost of right-of-way, grading, and approaches.
Section 31-27-18 - Minimum overhead clearance--Width of roadway--Approaches.