Section 31-3-23 - Proceedings on short highway without usual number of petitioners--Payment ofdamages.
31-3-23. Proceedings on short highway without usual number of petitioners--Payment of damages. Where such public highway proposed to be located is not more than one mile in length, the board of county commissioners shall in all things proceed as provided in §§ 31-3-22 to 31-3-37, inclusive, although the petition for such highway may be by but one or more petitioners and the board of county commissioners shall require the petitioner or petitioners for such highway to pay the damages assessed for the location thereof.
Source: SL 1913, ch 235; SL 1915, ch 211, § 2; RC 1919, § 8537; SL 1919, ch 333, § 14; SDC 1939, § 28.0602; SL 1951, ch 139, § 1.