Section 34-35-1 - Plowing of fireguards around township--Grading for roadway. - South Dakota Statutes

34-35-1. Plowing of fireguards around township--Grading for roadway. In all organized civil townships at the annual meeting of the electors thereof in March of each year, the electors may instruct the township supervisors to plow, or to have plowed, fireguards around every township, not less than ten nor more than twenty feet in width, commencing not exceeding two rods from the center of the roadway and plowing toward the center of the same. If upon such plowing the sod is or has been destroyed and the ground is in a workable condition, the township supervisors immediately after such plowing shall with a road grader, grade and work the dirt so plowed away from the outside and toward the center of the road, so that the roadway will incline and drain from the center toward the side of the road, and they shall thoroughly surface and smooth the same so as to form a graded highway, the primary purpose of such work being to form an efficient fireguard, but, incidentally to grade and perfect the roadway.

Source: SL 1893, ch 91, § 1; RPolC 1903, § 1131; SL 1905, ch 111; SL 1915, ch 193; RC 1919, § 6128; SDC 1939, § 58.1001.