Loading...
GENERAL
(A) The municipality may establish and construct main, trunk, sanitary, storm and service sewers, and septic or sewage treatment plants, drains, and manholes either within its corporate limits or within ten miles of its corporate limits; may appropriate funds and levy taxes to accumulate funds for such purposes; may establish sewer districts as provided by SDCL Title 9; may acquire any sewer, drain, or system of sewerage and drainage already established and constructed; and may acquire land within or without the municipality for a septic or sewage treatment plant or outlet to any main sewer, and may assess the cost thereof with cost of any necessary extension or connection of such main sewer to all the property within the sewer district benefitted as provided by this chapter.
(B) The proceeds of any taxes levied for the accumulation of funds under this section shall be placed in a separate fund which may not revert at the end of the fiscal year. The municipality shall establish a maximum amount to be accumulated in the fund. The fund shall be established by a resolution adopted pursuant to SDCL Chapter 9-19.
(SDCL § 9-48-2)
Sewers are classified as follows:
COMBINED SANITARY AND STORM SEWER. A sewer which is not designated as either a storm sewer or sanitary sewer is designed for this use.
MAIN SEWER. One designed to carry the entire sewage or water of a municipality or sewerage district to the sewer outlet, septic, or disposal plant.
SANITARY SEWER. One designed solely to carry sewage and wastes from buildings or structures. The term SANITARY SEWER shall exclude drainage from roofs, sidewalks, roadways, streets, alleys, or other surface drainage.
SERVICE SEWER. One designed to carry sewage or water from the property abutting upon the street or way in which it is laid into a trunk or main sewer, or into the sewer outlet, septic, or disposal plant.
STORM SEWER. One designed solely to carry storm or surface waters.
TRUNK SEWER. One designed to carry the sewage or water from any particular district or portion of the municipality as well as the sewage or water from property abutting upon the street or way in which it is laid, and of sufficient capacity to carry the sewage or water from the service sewers in the district or portion of the municipality in which it is laid, to the main sewer outlet, septic, or disposal plant.
(SDCL § 9-48-1)
The municipality may construct, maintain, or authorize the construction and maintenance of sewer pipes on private property or in or along any stream of water, or empty or discharge the sewage of the municipality into any stream of water within or without its limits, subject to the provisions of SDCL Chapter 34A-2, if such can be done without creating any foul or noxious odors in the air over or along such stream.
(SDCL § 9-48-4)
Statutory reference:
Environmental protection, see SDCL Chapter 34A-2
Loading...