Section 9-38-1 - Municipal power to maintain facilities and issue bonds--New campgroundsprohibited--Exceptions.
9-38-1. Municipal power to maintain facilities and issue bonds--New campgrounds prohibited--Exceptions. Every municipality may establish, improve, maintain, and regulate public parks, public squares, parkways, boulevards, swimming pools, camping, and other facilities in connection therewith within or without the municipality, and to issue its bonds therefor, as provided by this title. A municipality may establish camping or tourist accommodation facilities if there is no existing private campground, inspected and approved by the South Dakota Department of Health, located within fifteen miles of such municipality. However, a municipality may construct or expand camping or tourist accommodation facilities if there is an existing private campground within fifteen miles of the municipality if the owner of the existing campground approves such construction or expansion in writing. Camping and tourist accommodation facilities established prior to July 1, 1970, are deemed to have been established under the then existing authority to establish public parks, and municipalities may continue to maintain and regulate such facilities.
Source: SL 1890, ch 37, art V, § 1, subdiv 7, 44; RPolC 1903, § 1229, subdiv 7, 44; SL 1913, ch 119, § 53, subdiv 7, 44; RC 1919, § 6169 (10); SDC 1939, § 45.0201 (98); SL 1970, ch 63, § 1; SL 1971, ch 66; SL 1990, ch 64.