An Act to increase the annual assessment limits for certain road maintenance and repairs.
Be it enacted by the Legislature of the State of South Dakota:
Section 1. That 31-13-51 be AMENDED:
31-13-51. Annual front foot assessment for maintenance and repairs.
The township board of supervisors or, in the case of any township
which is no longer organized, the board of county commissioners,
prior to the assessment of real property within the township, or
unorganized township, for the next fiscal year, may levy annually for
the purpose of maintaining or repairing street surfaces, whether of a
permanent type or not, a special front foot assessment not to exceed
two four dollars per front foot upon the real
property fronting and abutting the situated
within three hundred feet of an asphalt roadway and not to
exceed two dollars per front foot upon the real property situated
within three hundred feet of a non-asphalt roadway. Such
assessment shall be apportioned on a front foot basis and shall be
levied pursuant to 31-13-52.
If the board of county commissioners is levying a special assessment
on real property pursuant to this section, the board of county
commissioners shall perform the duties, as applicable, that are
required of the township board of supervisors pursuant to 31-13-32
to 31-13-54,
inclusive.