(A) If a municipality chooses to employ or retain a person to serve as a municipal engineer, the municipal engineer shall be a licensed professional engineer under SDCL Chapter 36-18A. If the municipal engineer is not also licensed as a land surveyor under SDCL Chapter 36-18A, the municipal engineer shall delegate any duties that are defined in SDCL Chapter 36-18A as the practice of land surveying to a licensed land surveyor.
(B) The governing body shall by ordinance or agreement prescribe the duties and fix the compensation of the municipal engineer.
(C) All surveys, profiles, plans, or estimates made by the municipal engineer for the municipality are the property of the municipality and shall be carefully preserved in the municipality's office or the office of the municipal engineer and are open to public inspection.
(SDCL § 9-14-24)