South Dakota Codified Laws
Chapter 17 - Water Boundaries And Riparian Lands
Section 43-17-2 - Upland owner taking to edge of navigable lake or stream at low-water mark--Exception--Navigable rivers and lakes as public highways.

43-17-2. Upland owner taking to edge of navigable lake or stream at low-water mark--Exception--Navigable rivers and lakes as public highways.
Unless the grant under which the land is held indicates a different intent, the owner of the upland, if it borders upon a navigable lake or stream, takes to the edge of the lake or stream at low water mark. All navigable rivers and lakes are public highways within fifty feet landward from the water's nearest edge, provided that the outer boundary of such public highway may not expand beyond the ordinary high water mark and may not contract within the ordinary low water mark, and subject to §§43-17-29, 43-17-31, 43-17-32, and 43-17-33.

Source: CivC 1877, §266; CL 1887, §2782; RCivC 1903, §289; RC 1919, §359; SDC 1939, §51.0703; SL 1985, ch 337, §1; SL 1989, ch 379, §1.

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South Dakota Codified Laws

Title 43 - Property

Chapter 17 - Water Boundaries And Riparian Lands

Section 43-17-1 - Land below ordinary high-water mark of navigable lake or stream--Law governing ownership.

Section 43-17-2 - Upland owner taking to edge of navigable lake or stream at low-water mark--Exception--Navigable rivers and lakes as public highways.

Section 43-17-3 - Lands forming in bed of navigable stream or meandered lake belong to state--Exception.

Section 43-17-4 - Opposite banks of nonnavigable stream belonging to different persons--Stream and bed common to both.

Section 43-17-5 - Accretions to bank of river or stream belong to owner of bank subject to existing right-of-way.

Section 43-17-6 - Surveying and subdividing accretion lands--Permanency of uncontested boundaries.

Section 43-17-7 - Notice of survey of accretion lands--Consent of interested parties necessary.

Section 43-17-8 - Plat of accretion lands by surveyor--Contents--Recording.

Section 43-17-9 - Attaching of additional land--Substitution of outer boundary of surveyed accretion land--Apportionment of new accreted land--Determination of boundary line.

Section 43-17-10 - Title to land by avulsion--Reclamation by original owner of part of land carried away.

Section 43-17-11 - Stream forming new course--Abandonment of ancient stream bed--Owners of newly occupied land take ancient stream bed proportionately.

Section 43-17-12 - New arm of stream--Island formed by division belongs to owner of shore.

Section 43-17-13 - Ownership of island or accumulation of land in nonnavigable stream.

Section 43-17-14 - Land acquired by reliction--Apportionment and division--Preparation, contents and recording of survey.

Section 43-17-15 - Failure or neglect of owners of land acquired by reliction to plat land--Enforcement action by municipal officials.

Section 43-17-16 - Action to enforce survey of land acquired by reliction--Determination of ownership--Appointment of commissioners to divide and survey relicted lands.

Section 43-17-17 - Plat and survey of relicted lands by commissioners--Report in writing--Filing with clerk of courts.

Section 43-17-18 - Report and survey of relicted lands by commissioners--Adoption or modification by circuit court--Filing of certified copy of judgment--New trial and appeal.

Section 43-17-19 - Costs of action to enforce plat and survey of relicted lands.

Section 43-17-20 - Establishment of water marks on lakes--Definition of terms.

Section 43-17-21 - Water Management Board to establish and mark high and low water marks on public lakes--Change on change in natural conditions.

Section 43-17-23 - Natural factors given precedence in water marks--When man-made influences considered.

Section 43-17-24 - Investigation of site where water mark to be established--Consultation with other agencies--Public hearings.

Section 43-17-24.1 - Notice of public hearings on water marks.

Section 43-17-24.2 - Prior decisions on water marks validated--Rights barred by no action.

Section 43-17-25 - Reconsideration of water marks established by board--Final unless appealed to courts.

Section 43-17-26 - Ownership and rights of use unaffected.

Section 43-17-27 - Marks previously determined not affected--Effect on pending proceedings for determination.

Section 43-17-28 - Persons who may request board determination--Jurisdiction of courts.

Section 43-17-29 - Public rights in lake above high water mark.

Section 43-17-30 - Powers of Department of Game, Fish and Parks.

Section 43-17-31 - Landowner's right to deny public access to taxable property--Department to clearly mark certain inundated property--Exception.

Section 43-17-32 - Landowner's right to deny state agency use of taxable property--Conditions for public access--Exceptions.

Section 43-17-33 - Public access to private lands pursuant to § 43-17-32--Identification of affected property by state agency.

Section 43-17-34 - Navigable defined--Application of sections.

Section 43-17-35 - Fencing certain land on both sides of navigable stream permitted--Violation as misdemeanor.

Section 43-17-36 - Promulgation of rules for safe use of stream.

Section 43-17-38 - Gate or opening required in fence constructed across certain streams--Federally-navigable rivers--Public access--Violation as misdemeanor.

Section 43-17-40 - Responsibility for construction and maintenance of gate or opening.

Section 43-17-41 - Liability for damage from fencing on both sides of navigable streams.