South Dakota Codified Laws
Chapter 48 - Sewer Systems
Section 9-48-26 - Sewer utility charges established by ordinance, resolution, or with voters' approval.

9-48-26. Sewer utility charges established by ordinance, resolution, or with voters' approval.
Any municipality which has installed or plans to install sewer utilities for public use may by ordinance or resolution establish charges to be paid to the municipality for the use of the sewer utilities by every user whose premises are served by a connection to the sewer utilities, directly or indirectly. A municipality may also submit to the voters of the municipality at any general election or any special election called for such purpose the question of whether or not the municipality shall establish charges for the use of sewer utilities. If a majority of the voters voting upon the question vote in favor of the question, then the municipality may by ordinance or resolution establish charges to be paid to the municipality for the use of the sewer utilities by every user whose premises are served by a connection to the sewer utilities, directly or indirectly. For the purposes of this section the term, sewer utilities, means any main, trunk, and service sewers; sanitary and storm sewers; and septic or sewage treatment plants, drains, and manholes.

Source: SL 1949, ch 204, §1; SDC Supp 1960, §45.1820; SL 1973, ch 57; SL 1982, ch 84, §1; SL 2007, ch 44, §1

Structure South Dakota Codified Laws

South Dakota Codified Laws

Title 9 - Municipal Government

Chapter 48 - Sewer Systems

Section 9-48-1 - Classification of sewers.

Section 9-48-2 - Authority to establish, construct, and maintain sewer systems--Separate fund.

Section 9-48-3 - Real property in adjoining state.

Section 9-48-4 - Sewer pipes on private property--Discharge of sewage into stream.

Section 9-48-5 - Acquisition of sewer mains in newly annexed area.

Section 9-48-6 - General obligation bonds for financing of sewers.

Section 9-48-7 - Connections from sewers to lot line.

Section 9-48-15 - Assessment of property for proportionate share of sewer previously constructed--Apportionment among persons paying cost.

Section 9-48-16 - Municipal purchase of private sewers.

Section 9-48-17 - Plans, specifications and cost estimate filed before purchase of sewer--Resolution.

Section 9-48-18 - Property owners' protest against purchase of private sewer.

Section 9-48-20 - Minimum distance between sewer connections.

Section 9-48-26 - Sewer utility charges established by ordinance, resolution, or with voters' approval.

Section 9-48-27 - Factors considered in establishing sewer charges--Collection with water rentals.

Section 9-48-28 - Metering of water supply to determine sewer charges--Consideration of water consumed without return to sewer system.

Section 9-48-29 - Sewer charges and rentals kept in separate fund--Limit on accumulation--Use of fund.

Section 9-48-30 - Special contract powers unimpaired.

Section 9-48-31 - Revenue bond authority unimpaired by provisions as to sewer charges and rentals.

Section 9-48-32 - Special contract for disposing of private sewage or industrial waste through municipal sewage treatment plant.

Section 9-48-32.1 - Sewer utility rates and charges for recovery of capital costs--Intergovernmental cooperation.

Section 9-48-53 - Connection of plumbing fixtures to public water sewer system--Purchase or lease of preexisting private sewers--Exemption of first class municipalities.