§ 51.07 CONNECTIONS FROM SEWERS TO LOT LINE.

   The municipality shall have power to regulate and provide for the laying of sewer connections from the city trunk or service sewers, to the lot line. The municipality may assess the cost against the abutting property owner as provided by SDCL Chapter 9-43.

(SDCL § 9-48-7)

§ 51.08 DISPOSING PRIVATE OR INDUSTRIAL WASTE THROUGH MUNICIPAL SEWAGE PLANT.

   A municipality, where a sewage treatment or septic plant is maintained, may enter into a contract to connect to the plant for the purpose of treating or disposing of private sewage or industrial waste originating within the municipality or within ten miles of the corporate limits of the municipality, if the plant has the capacity to handle the sewage or industrial waste.

(SDCL § 9-48-32)

CONNECTIONS

§ 51.20 MINIMUM DISTANCE BETWEEN SEWER CONNECTIONS.

   No more than one sewer connection shall be made for each platted lot, or for each 44 feet of frontage of unplatted ground, in the residence section, and for each 22 feet of frontage in the business section of the municipality, except when the abutting owner requests in writing the placing of sewer connections at a less number of feet.

(SDCL § 9-48-20)

§ 51.21 CONNECTION OF PLUMBING FIXTURES TO PUBLIC WATER SEWER SYSTEM.

   (A)   Each building in which plumbing fixtures are installed shall connect to a public water sewer system if available.  A public sewer system is available to a premise used for human occupancy if the property line of the premise is within 200 feet of the system.  A municipality may purchase, lease with purchase option, lease, or otherwise acquire from the owners, or condemn pursuant to SDCL § 9-12-1(2), any preexisting private sewers located within the municipality.

   (B)   The provisions of this section do not apply to municipalities of the first class. Nothing in this section requires any municipality to provide any municipal service outside of its municipal boundaries.

(SDCL § 9-48-53)

PURCHASE OF PRIVATE SEWERS

§ 51.35 MUNICIPAL PURCHASE OF PRIVATE SEWERS.

   Whenever there has been constructed by any person within any street or alley a private sewer or sewers which shall be wholly or partly within any district subsequently established as provided in this chapter, the municipality may purchase such sewer or sewers or any part thereof and assess such cost to the property fronting or abutting upon the sewer as provided in SDCL Chapter 9-43.

(SDCL § 9-48-16)