Section 7-18-9 - Condemnation of private property by county--Resolution of necessity.
7-18-9. Condemnation of private property by county--Resolution of necessity. The board of county commissioners is authorized to condemn private property for public purposes in the manner and to the extent hereinafter provided.
Whenever the board of county commissioners shall deem it necessary to condemn private property for the purpose of opening, constructing, changing, relocating, maintaining, repairing, or extending any highway or bridge within its county, or for the purpose of erecting, repairing, or extending any courthouse, jail, or other public building, and of acquiring other or additional ground therefor, or for the purpose of providing cut slopes, borrow pits, or channel changes, or to afford unobstructed vision on said highways in said county at any point of danger to public travel, for right-of-way and borrow pit, or for the purpose of making any other public improvement or to acquire private property for any public use authorized by law, such board shall by resolution and order declare such appropriation necessary to be made, stating the purpose thereof and the extent of such appropriation, and thereupon proceedings for such condemnation and appropriation shall be had as provided by law.
Nothing herein shall be construed as authorizing county commissioners to condemn property for county courthouse or jail site until a majority of the voters of a county shall have voted in favor of the erection of a courthouse or jail.
Source: SL 1913, ch 152, §§ 1, 2; RC 1919, §§ 5805, 5806; SDC 1939, § 12.1806; SL 1957, ch 25.