Section 31-14-27 - County construction or replacement of bridges and culverts on townshipsecondary roads--Reimbursement of county.
31-14-27. County construction or replacement of bridges and culverts on township secondary roads--Reimbursement of county. If a township board of supervisors or county highway superintendent within this state requests of its board of county commissioners a construction or replacing in its entirety of any bridge or the placing or replacing of any culvert with an opening of sixteen square feet or more including material upon the secondary roads within such township, the board of county commissioners may cause the same to be done and the township shall reimburse the county up to and including five hundred dollars, and any cost in excess of five hundred dollars shall be paid by the county. After the placing or replacing of any culvert as provided in this section, it shall be maintained and kept clean at the expense of the township. The construction or replacing of any bridge or the placing or replacing of any culvert with an opening of less than sixteen square feet upon a secondary road within a township shall be at the total expense of the township, and it shall be maintained and kept clean at the expense of the township.
Source: SL 1919, ch 333, § 30; SDC 1939, § 28.1403; SL 1949, ch 111; SL 1955, ch 102, § 2; SL 1957, ch 127; SL 1974, ch 203, § 1; SL 1980, ch 210; SL 1981, ch 226.