Section 31-3-30 - Remonstrance against petition--Determination by county commissioners--Assessment of damages.
31-3-30. Remonstrance against petition--Determination by county commissioners--Assessment of damages. If at the meeting of the board of county commissioners at which the report of the committee appointed to examine such highway is presented, any person over whose land such highway passes shall remonstrate against granting the prayer of the petition, setting forth in writing that he is damaged by the location, change, or vacation of such highway in a stated sum, to the truth of which he takes and subscribes an oath, such board shall determine from the face of the report and the evidence before it the amount of damages sustained and whether the damages so assessed are greater than the utility of the proposed highway or change, and if it deems the highway of sufficient advantage to the public to warrant the paying of the damages assessed, the board shall declare such highway located, changed, or vacated and all damages declared assessed shall be paid by the county; but if it shall determine that the damages assessed are greater than the advantages of the proposed location, change, or vacation, it shall order the petition dismissed.
Source: SL 1883, ch 112, § 59; CL 1887, § 1319; RPolC 1903, § 1730; RC 1919, § 8542; SDC 1939, § 28.0607.