(A) Purpose. The purpose of this section is to identify the corporate limits of the city.
(Prior Code, § A-1-1)
(B) Corporate limits of the city.
(1) The city shall consist of the land on the west bank of the Missouri River in Township 5 North, Range 31 East of the Black Hills Meridian, Stanley County, South Dakota, set apart by the Act of March 3, 1891, § 22, for townsite purposes only as reflected in the patent issued by the United States government to William R. Erwin, trustee, and on file in the office of the Register of Deeds of the county, and shall include such areas as are from time to time annexed thereto.
(2) The corporate limits of the city are as follows: the eastern boundary shall be the Missouri River; the northern boundary shall begin at the intersection of the west shore of the Missouri River and the north line of Government Lot 5 in Section 16, thence, westerly to the NW corner of the SE 1/4 SE 1/4 Section 17, thence southerly to the SW corner of the SE 1/4 of the SE 1/4 on the section line separating Section 20 from Section 17, in said Township 5, Range 31, thence, westerly to the north and south half section line of Section 20; the western boundary shall be the north and south half section line of Sections 20 and 29 from the above described northern border to intersection with the east and west quarter line of the northeast quarter of Section 29, along said quarter line to its intersection with the boundary between Sections 28 and 29, southerly along said boundary to the southern boundary of Section 28, and easterly along said southern boundary of Section 28 to intersection with the original townsite described above, and then approximately 4,740 feet along a southeasterly line described by the boundary of that townsite; thence northeasterly along the southern boundary of the original townsite to the intersection with the bank of the Bad River thence along the north and east bank of the Bad River to the intersection with the north-south section line dividing Sections 33 and 34, thence north along said section line the intersection with the southernmost sixteenth line of Section 34, thence easterly along said sixteenth line to the intersection with the bank of the Missouri River, Stanley County.
(Prior Code, § A-1-2)
Statutory reference:
Related provisions, see SDCL §§ 9-3-2 and 9-29-1