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The record
- Jurisdiction
- South Dakota (every municipality) · South Dakota
- Level
- State
- Authority
- S.D. Codified Laws title 9 (Municipal Government), ch. 9-32 (Sanitation and Health Measures)
- Issued
- 2026-09-29 Sept. 29, 2026
- Effective
- standing (read as 2026-09-29)
- End
- standing
- In force
- Standing since Sept. 29, 2026 (a statutory duty; in force throughout the six quarters)
- Quarters
- 2020 Q22020 Q32020 Q42021 Q12021 Q22021 Q3
2020 Q22020 Q32020 Q42021 Q12021 Q22021 Q3
- Limitation types
- Business closureGathering capFace-covering requirementStanding duty
- Addressees
- specified businesses and persons within municipalities, as the ordinances provide; food service establishments and stores
- Character
- statutory authority
- Collection
- Standing duties: South Dakota DUT-SD
Operative words
Every municipality shall have power to do what may be necessary or expedient for the promotion of health or the suppression of disease.... Each first or second class municipality may appoint a board of health and prescribe its powers and duties subject to the supervision of the State Department of Health.
Penalty
Ordinance penalties up to the Class 2 misdemeanor ceiling (SDCL 9-19-3, 22-6-2(2); Ex. DUT-SD-009, DUT-SD-007); Sioux Falls Ord. 28-20 § 3 added liquor-license referral and daily offenses (Ex. SD-039)
What it required
Every South Dakota municipality holds a standing power 'to do what may be necessary or expedient for the promotion of health or the suppression of disease' (9-32-1), to constitute a board of health under the State Department's supervision (9-32-2) and to inspect food products and persons employed in food service establishments and stores (9-32-3, -4); this is the power under which Sioux Falls adopted its Board of Health regulations by Ordinance 28-20 (Ex. SD-039) and Rapid City and Brookings closed and then conditioned businesses by ordinance (Ex. SD-063, SD-064, SD-068, SD-070). Character as recorded: statutory_authority (enabling power; binds through the orders issued under it).
Retrieval noteSDCL 9-29-13 (ch. 9-29, General Police Powers; not saved) adds: 'Every municipality shall have power to declare what shall constitute a nuisance and prevent, abate, and remove the same' (read in the official text on 2026-09-29).