South Dakota Codified Laws
Chapter 32 - Sanitation And Health Measures
Section 9-32-20 - Use of perpetual care fund for land acquisition.

9-32-20. Use of perpetual care fund for land acquisition.
If the municipality finds it necessary to extend the boundaries of such cemetery, or acquire land removed from the present cemetery, a portion of the perpetual care trust fund may be used under the following conditions: If the trust fund is in the amount of fifty thousand dollars or more, and the governing board deems it necessary to acquire more land for the interment of the deceased, one thousand dollars for each three thousand dollars in excess of fifty thousand dollars may be expended for this purpose. The expenditure of perpetual care trust funds as outlined above shall be a one time expenditure only.

Source: SL 1971, ch 71, ยง8.

Structure South Dakota Codified Laws

South Dakota Codified Laws

Title 9 - Municipal Government

Chapter 32 - Sanitation And Health Measures

Section 9-32-1 - Promotion of health and suppression of disease.

Section 9-32-2 - City board of health--Powers and duties.

Section 9-32-3 - Inspection of meats and food products.

Section 9-32-4 - Inspection of persons employed in food service establishments and stores.

Section 9-32-5 - Maintenance of public toilets in business district.

Section 9-32-6 - Stables, privies, and cesspools.

Section 9-32-7 - Slaughterhouses, foundries, livery stables, and blacksmith shops.

Section 9-32-8 - Protection of public water supply.

Section 9-32-9 - Cisterns, hydrants, pumps, sewers, and gutters.

Section 9-32-10 - Refuse in public places and streams.

Section 9-32-11 - Municipal garbage disposal systems.

Section 9-32-12 - Noxious and unhealthful vegetation.

Section 9-32-13 - Regulation and operation of cemeteries.

Section 9-32-14 - Municipal perpetual care cemeteries authorized.

Section 9-32-15 - Municipalities exempt from general perpetual care law.

Section 9-32-16 - Rates for perpetual care and burial spaces.

Section 9-32-17 - Records of sales--Deeds and perpetual care certificates.

Section 9-32-18 - Perpetual care trust fund--Crediting of income.

Section 9-32-19 - Acquisition of additional land for municipal cemetery.

Section 9-32-20 - Use of perpetual care fund for land acquisition.

Section 9-32-20.1 - Use of perpetual care trust fund to maintain cemetery.

Section 9-32-21 - Repossession of unused and uncared for lots and mausoleums.

Section 9-32-22 - Severability of cemetery provisions.