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)

§ 51.36 PLANS, SPECIFICATIONS AND COST ESTIMATE FOR PURCHASE OF SEWER.

   No purchase pursuant to § 51.35 shall be made until plans and specifications of the location, arrangement, form, and size, and material to be used in the construction of such sewer or sewers and an estimate of the cost of constructing the same at the time of making such estimate shall have been made and filed by the engineer or other competent person and a resolution providing for such purchase has become effective after notice and hearing thereon as provided in the case of a resolution to construct service sewers.

(SDCL § 9-48-17)

§ 51.37 PROPERTY OWNER'S PROTEST AGAINST PURCHASE OF PRIVATE SEWER.

   If the owners of a majority of the real property fronting or abutting on a sewer described in § 51.35 prior to such resolution becoming effective shall file a written protest against such purchase, the governing body shall not have power to purchase the same.

(SDCL § 9-48-18)

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