§ 50-7-2 County commissioners and municipalities may maintain airports--Airports in adjoining states--Creation of airport board.

SD Codified L § 50-7-2 (2019) (N/A)
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50-7-2. County commissioners and municipalities may maintain airports--Airports in adjoining states--Creation of airport board. The board of county commissioners of any county in this state may acquire, establish, construct, own, control, lease, equip, improve, maintain, operate, and regulate airports for the use of aircraft within the limits of the county, and may use for any such purpose any real property suitable therefor owned or controlled by the county. Each municipality has the same power and jurisdiction except that a municipality may exercise the power either within or without the corporate limits of the municipality. Any municipality situated at or near the boundary line of an adjoining state may exercise the power and jurisdiction over real property and persons, for such purposes in the adjoining state and may maintain actions in the corporate name in the courts of the adjoining state for the exercise or protection of any rights authorized by this chapter. The governing boards of a county or a municipality may by resolution create an airport board.

Source: SDC 1939, § 2.0201; SL 1939, ch 1; SL 1941, ch 1; SL 1945, ch 3; SL 1945, ch 4; SL 1947, ch 2; SL 1961, ch 1; SL 1992, ch 60, § 2; SL 2014, ch 222, § 43.