Section 31-14-41 - Taxpayer's petition for vehicle bridge across navigable rivers--Contents--Notice of hearing.
31-14-41. Taxpayer's petition for vehicle bridge across navigable rivers--Contents--Notice of hearing. Whenever one-third of the resident taxpayers of any county of this state, as shall appear by the last preceding assessment roll of such county, shall petition the board of county commissioners praying for an appropriation to build a bridge across any navigable river on the line of such county, setting forth therein the location of such bridge as near as may be, its estimated cost and the necessity therefor to accommodate the general traveling public, the manner in which it is proposed to pay for such structure and the time when it will be completed, such petition to be duly verified by the affidavits of at least fifteen of the petitioners therein named, it shall be the duty of such board to publish a notice in the official papers of the county once each week for at least two successive weeks, briefly stating the subject of such petition and that the same will be heard and considered at the next regular meeting of the board.
Source: SL 1887, ch 18, § 1; CL 1887, § 1239; RPolC 1903, § 1644; RC 1919, § 8689; SDC 1939, § 28.1420; SL 1972, ch 166, § 3.