11-6-2. Planning and zoning commission required in municipality--Comprehensive plan to be effected.

For the purpose of promoting the health, safety, and general welfare of the municipality, each municipality of the state shall provide by ordinance for a planning and zoning commission, including the appropriation of money to a fund for the expenditures of such commission and to provide by ordinance the qualifications of the members, mode of appointment, tenure of office, compensation, powers, duties of and rules governing such board. Municipalities shall, as soon as possible, make, adopt, amend, extend, add to or carry out a general municipal plan of development, such plan to be referred to as the comprehensive plan.

Source: SDCL, § 11-6-2 as enacted by SL 1975, ch 116, § 2; SL 1995, ch 49, § 21.