<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><head><meta charset="UTF-8" /><meta http-equiv='content-language' content='en-us'/><title>SDLRC - Codified Law 21-10-1 - Acts and omissions constituting nuisances. </title><meta name="Generator" content="PowerTools for Open XML" /><style>span { white-space: pre-wrap; } p.s2081193Normal { text-indent: 0.50in; text-align: justify; font-family: 'Times New Roman', 'serif'; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 108%; margin-top: 0; margin-left: 0; margin-right: 0; margin-bottom: .001pt; } span.s2081193SENU { font-family: 'Times New Roman', 'serif'; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: bold; margin: 0; padding: 0; } span.s2081193CL { font-family: 'Times New Roman', 'serif'; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: bold; margin: 0; padding: 0; } p.s2081193Statute { text-align: justify; font-family: 'Times New Roman', 'serif'; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 108%; margin-top: 0; margin-left: 0; margin-right: 0; margin-bottom: .001pt; } span.s2081193DefaultParagraphFont { font-family: 'Times New Roman', 'serif'; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; margin: 0; padding: 0; } p.s2081193StatuteNumber1 { margin-left: 0.70in; text-indent: -0.45in; text-align: justify; font-family: 'Times New Roman', 'serif'; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 108%; margin-top: 0; margin-right: 0; margin-bottom: .001pt; } span.s2081193000000 { font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; margin: 0; padding: 0; } span.s2081193DefaultParagraphFont-000001 { font-family: 'Times New Roman', 'serif'; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: bold; margin: 0; padding: 0; } span.s2081193SCL { font-family: 'Times New Roman', 'serif'; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; margin: 0; padding: 0; } body { text-decoration-skip-ink: none; } </style></head><body><div><p dir="ltr" class="s2081193Normal"><a href="https://sdlegislature.gov/Statutes/Codified_Laws/DisplayStatute.aspx?Type=Statute&amp;Statute=21-10-1"><span class="s2081193SENU">21-10-1</span></a><span xml:space="preserve" class="s2081193SENU">. </span><span class="s2081193CL">Acts and omissions constituting nuisances.</span></p><p dir="ltr" class="s2081193Statute"><span class="s2081193DefaultParagraphFont">A nuisance consists in unlawfully doing an act, or omitting to perform a duty, which act or omission either:</span></p><p dir="ltr" class="s2081193StatuteNumber1"><span class="s2081193DefaultParagraphFont">(1)    Annoys, injures, or endangers the comfort, repose, health, or safety of others;</span></p><p dir="ltr" class="s2081193StatuteNumber1"><span class="s2081193DefaultParagraphFont">(2)    Offends decency;</span></p><p dir="ltr" class="s2081193StatuteNumber1"><span class="s2081193DefaultParagraphFont">(3)    Unlawfully interferes with, obstructs, or tends to obstruct, or renders dangerous for passage, any lake or navigable river, bay, stream, canal, or basin, or any public park, square, sidewalk, street, or highway;</span></p><p dir="ltr" class="s2081193StatuteNumber1"><span class="s2081193DefaultParagraphFont">(4)    In any way renders other persons insecure in life, or in the use of property.</span></p><p dir="ltr" class="s2081193Normal"><span xml:space="preserve" class="s2081193000000"> </span></p><p dir="ltr" class="s2081193Normal"><span xml:space="preserve" class="s2081193DefaultParagraphFont-000001">Source: </span><span class="s2081193SCL">CivC 1877, § 2047; CL 1887, § 4681; RCivC 1903, § 2393; RC 1919, § 2066; SDC 1939 &amp; Supp 1960, § 37.4701; SL 2020, ch 30, § 14.</span></p></div></body></html>