Section 38-7-2 - Definition of terms.
38-7-2. Definition of terms. Wherever used or referred to in this chapter or chapter 38-8, unless a different meaning clearly appears from the context:
(1) "Agency of this state" includes the government of this state and any subdivision, agency, or instrumentality, corporate or otherwise, of the government of this state;
(2) "Commission" means the State Conservation Commission established by § 38-7-3;
(3) "District" or "conservation district" means a governmental subdivision of this state, and a public body, corporate and politic, organized in accordance with the provisions of chapter 38-8, for the purpose, with the powers, and subject to the restrictions therein set forth;
(4) "Division" means the Division of Resource Conservation and Forestry created by § 38-7-2.1;
(5) "Due notice" means notice published at least twice, with an interval of at least seven days between the publication dates, in a legal newspaper within said district or by posting copies thereof in three of the most public places within said district for a period of at least ten days immediately preceding the date specified in said notice. At any hearing held pursuant to such notice, at the time and place designated in such notice, adjournment may be made from time to time without the necessity of renewing such notice for such adjourned dates;
(6) "Government" or "governmental" includes the government of this state, the government of the United States, and any subdivision, agency, or instrumentality, corporate or otherwise, of either of them;
(7) "Land occupier" or "occupier of land" includes any person, firm, or corporation who shall hold title to, or shall be in possession of any agricultural, grazing, or forest lands lying within a district organized under the provisions of chapter 38-8, whether as owner, lessee, renter, tenant, or otherwise;
(8) A "landowner" or "owners of land" shall include any South Dakota resident person, firm, or corporation, public or private who has legal title to ten or more acres of land, lying within a district organized, or to be organized as shown by the records in the offices of the register of deeds and the clerk of courts of the county in which such land is situated; and if such land is sold under a contract for deed, which is of record in the office of the register of deeds of such county, both the landowner and his individual purchaser of such land, as named in such contract for deed, shall be treated as landowners;
(9) "Nominating petition" means a petition filed under the provisions of chapter 38-8 to nominate candidates for the office of supervisor of a conservation district;
(10) "Petition" means a petition filed under the provisions of chapter 38-8 for the creation of a conservation district;
(11) "Supervisor" means one of the members of the governing body of a district, elected or appointed in accordance with the provisions of chapter 38-8;
(12) "United States" or "agencies of the United States" includes the United States of America, the Soil Conservation Service of the United States Department of Agriculture, and any other agency or instrumentality, corporate or otherwise, of the United States of America.
Source: SL 1937, ch 19, § 3; SDC 1939, § 4.1502; SL 1959, ch 3, § 1; SL 1964, ch 3.