Section 9-38-24 - Powers of board over parks and boulevards--Implementing powers. - South-dakota Statutes

State Codes and Statutes

Statutes > South-dakota > Title-9 > Chapter-38 > Statute-9-38-24

9-38-24. Powers of board over parks and boulevards--Implementing powers. The board may establish, improve, care for, regulate, and manage a system of public parks, parkways, and boulevards and with the approval of the governing body to acquire land therefor; regulate the planting and trimming of trees and shrubbery in parkings and park places upon any public street or boulevard; establish the channel of any stream or watercourse forming a part of the park system and improve the banks thereof; establish, maintain, and conduct with or without charge or to grant concessions for places of public amusement, recreation, or refreshment within or in connection with such parks; provided no lease or grant may be made for longer than three years and no professional shows or exhibitions for which an admission price is charged may be given in such parks; to park and boulevard the streets and to maintain the same and regulate the care thereof. However, a lease or grant to a concession may be made by the board for a period up to but not to exceed fifteen years if the concession requires a realty improvement investment of at least fifty thousand dollars or for a period up to but not to exceed fifty years if the concession requires a realty improvement investment of at least one hundred thousand dollars. The board may cause the cost of parking and boulevarding the streets and the maintenance thereof to be assessed against the abutting property as provided in §§ 9-38-49 to 9-38-53, inclusive.

Source: SL 1909, ch 272, § 7; SL 1915, ch 260, §§ 9, 65; SL 1917, ch 305, § 2; RC 1919, §§ 6440, 6452, 6508; SL 1919, ch 274; SL 1925, ch 237, § 9; SL 1925, ch 238; SDC 1939, § 45.2510; SL 1982, ch 79; SL 1993, ch 74.

State Codes and Statutes

Statutes > South-dakota > Title-9 > Chapter-38 > Statute-9-38-24

9-38-24. Powers of board over parks and boulevards--Implementing powers. The board may establish, improve, care for, regulate, and manage a system of public parks, parkways, and boulevards and with the approval of the governing body to acquire land therefor; regulate the planting and trimming of trees and shrubbery in parkings and park places upon any public street or boulevard; establish the channel of any stream or watercourse forming a part of the park system and improve the banks thereof; establish, maintain, and conduct with or without charge or to grant concessions for places of public amusement, recreation, or refreshment within or in connection with such parks; provided no lease or grant may be made for longer than three years and no professional shows or exhibitions for which an admission price is charged may be given in such parks; to park and boulevard the streets and to maintain the same and regulate the care thereof. However, a lease or grant to a concession may be made by the board for a period up to but not to exceed fifteen years if the concession requires a realty improvement investment of at least fifty thousand dollars or for a period up to but not to exceed fifty years if the concession requires a realty improvement investment of at least one hundred thousand dollars. The board may cause the cost of parking and boulevarding the streets and the maintenance thereof to be assessed against the abutting property as provided in §§ 9-38-49 to 9-38-53, inclusive.

Source: SL 1909, ch 272, § 7; SL 1915, ch 260, §§ 9, 65; SL 1917, ch 305, § 2; RC 1919, §§ 6440, 6452, 6508; SL 1919, ch 274; SL 1925, ch 237, § 9; SL 1925, ch 238; SDC 1939, § 45.2510; SL 1982, ch 79; SL 1993, ch 74.

State Codes and Statutes

Back To Homepage

State Codes and Statutes

Statutes > South-dakota > Title-9 > Chapter-38 > Statute-9-38-24

9-38-24. Powers of board over parks and boulevards--Implementing powers. The board may establish, improve, care for, regulate, and manage a system of public parks, parkways, and boulevards and with the approval of the governing body to acquire land therefor; regulate the planting and trimming of trees and shrubbery in parkings and park places upon any public street or boulevard; establish the channel of any stream or watercourse forming a part of the park system and improve the banks thereof; establish, maintain, and conduct with or without charge or to grant concessions for places of public amusement, recreation, or refreshment within or in connection with such parks; provided no lease or grant may be made for longer than three years and no professional shows or exhibitions for which an admission price is charged may be given in such parks; to park and boulevard the streets and to maintain the same and regulate the care thereof. However, a lease or grant to a concession may be made by the board for a period up to but not to exceed fifteen years if the concession requires a realty improvement investment of at least fifty thousand dollars or for a period up to but not to exceed fifty years if the concession requires a realty improvement investment of at least one hundred thousand dollars. The board may cause the cost of parking and boulevarding the streets and the maintenance thereof to be assessed against the abutting property as provided in §§ 9-38-49 to 9-38-53, inclusive.

Source: SL 1909, ch 272, § 7; SL 1915, ch 260, §§ 9, 65; SL 1917, ch 305, § 2; RC 1919, §§ 6440, 6452, 6508; SL 1919, ch 274; SL 1925, ch 237, § 9; SL 1925, ch 238; SDC 1939, § 45.2510; SL 1982, ch 79; SL 1993, ch 74.