2024 Senate Bill 188 - SD Legislature modify the time before which rural access infrastructure grant moneys must be expended or obligated.

2024 South Dakota Legislature

Senate Bill 188

ENROLLED

An Act

ENTITLED An Act to modify the time before which rural access infrastructure grant moneys must be expended or obligated.

Be it enacted by the Legislature of the State of South Dakota:

Section 1. That   31-34-3 be AMENDED:

31-34-3. Each county shall establish a rural access infrastructure fund for the deposit of moneys received pursuant to this chapter. The board of county commissioners may only distribute fund moneys for the following expenses:

(1) Engineering, hydrological studies, planning, materials, and other costs as necessary to plan for and complete the projects;

(2) Construction, rehabilitation, or replacement of small structures located in townships complying with the requirements of this chapter;

(3) Construction, rehabilitation, or replacement of small structures described in a county highway and bridge improvement plan that are located on county secondary highways.

The moneys may not be used on no maintenance roads or minimum maintenance roads.

Moneys received under this chapter must be obligated or spent by the county before the end of the 2029 fiscal year. All other unobligated or unspent moneys may be used for expenses until reverted pursuant to    4-8-21. Moneys may only be used for the expenses of those small structures inventoried with the department, as referenced in    31-34-2.

An Act to modify the time before which rural access infrastructure grant moneys must be expended or obligated.

I certify that the attached Act originated in the:

Senate as Bill No. 188

Secretary of the Senate

President of the Senate

Attest:

Secretary of the Senate

Speaker of the House

Attest:

Chief Clerk

Senate Bill No. 188

File No. ____

Chapter No. ______

Received at this Executive Office

this _____ day of _____________,

2024 at ____________M.

By

for the Governor

The attached Act is hereby

approved this ________ day of

______________, A.D., 2024

Governor

STATE OF SOUTH DAKOTA,

ss.

Office of the Secretary of State

Filed ____________, 2024

at _________ o'clock __M.

Secretary of State

By

Asst. Secretary of State

Statutes affected:
Introduced, 01/25/2024: 31-34-3
Senate Engrossed, 02/08/2024: 31-34-3
Enrolled, 02/22/2024: 31-34-3