Section 9-36-11 - Navigation and flood control improvements within stream boundaries--Acquisitionof property--Assessments against adjoining property.
9-36-11. Navigation and flood control improvements within stream boundaries--Acquisition of property--Assessments against adjoining property. Every municipality may construct, reconstruct, repair, and maintain bulkheads, wharves, levees, or breakwaters along or across any river or stream flowing within or through its boundaries, and for that purpose may purchase or condemn private property and assess the cost thereof against the property upon which such improvement is situated, and upon the lots abutting or adjoining such property upon that side of the river or stream on which such improvement is constructed.
Source: SL 1911, ch 94, § 1; RC 1919, § 6367; SDC 1939, § 45.2008.