# S.D. Codified Laws § 21-10-6: Abatement of nuisance--Notice required--Taxing cost of abatement--Civil action

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## Section

- **Citation:** S.D. Codified Laws § 21-10-6
- **Heading:** Abatement of nuisance--Notice required--Taxing cost of abatement--Civil action
- **Jurisdiction:** South Dakota
- **Kind:** Statutes
- **Status:** In force
- **Text as of:** August 14, 2026
- **Source:** Compiled text
- **Location:** SD Code / Title 21 / Chapter 10 / Section 21-10-6

## Text

A public nuisance may be abated without civil action by any public body or officer as authorized by law. Any municipality, county, or township may defray the cost of abating a public nuisance by taxing the cost thereof by assessment against the real property on which the nuisance occurred or against the real property abutting or adjoining the unrepaired sidewalk as set forth in § 9-46-2 . If the nuisance abated is an unsafe or dilapidated building, unrepaired sidewalk, junk, trash, debris, or similar nuisance arising from the condition of the property, the municipality, county, or township may commence a civil action against the owner of the real property for its costs of abatement in lieu of taxing the cost by special assessment.

Any private person may abate a public nuisance which is specially injurious to that person or any private nuisance injurious to that person by removing or if necessary destroying that which constitutes the nuisance without committing a breach of the peace or doing unnecessary injury. If a private nuisance results from a mere omission of the wrongdoer, and cannot be abated without entering upon the wrongdoer's land, reasonable notice shall be given to the wrongdoer before entering to abate it.

Source: SDC 1939 & Supp 1960, § 37.4707; SL 1981, ch 167; SL 1991, ch 182; SL 2004, ch 145, § 1; SL 2020, ch 30, § 15.

## Nearby sections

- [S.D. Codified Laws § 21-10-1 Acts and omissions constituting nuisances](https://www.frixlaw.com/law-library/statutes/STATE_SD_T21_C10_S21-10-1.md)
- [S.D. Codified Laws § 21-10-2 Acts under statutory authority not deemed nuisance](https://www.frixlaw.com/law-library/statutes/STATE_SD_T21_C10_S21-10-2.md)
- [S.D. Codified Laws § 21-10-3 Public and private nuisances defined](https://www.frixlaw.com/law-library/statutes/STATE_SD_T21_C10_S21-10-3.md)
- [S.D. Codified Laws § 21-10-4 Public nuisance not legalized by lapse of time](https://www.frixlaw.com/law-library/statutes/STATE_SD_T21_C10_S21-10-4.md)
- [S.D. Codified Laws § 21-10-5 Remedies against nuisances enumerated](https://www.frixlaw.com/law-library/statutes/STATE_SD_T21_C10_S21-10-5.md)
- [S.D. Codified Laws § 21-10-6 Abatement of nuisance--Notice required--Taxing cost of abatement--Civil action](https://www.frixlaw.com/law-library/statutes/STATE_SD_T21_C10_S21-10-6.md)
- [S.D. Codified Laws § 21-10-7 Damages for past injury recoverable after abatement](https://www.frixlaw.com/law-library/statutes/STATE_SD_T21_C10_S21-10-7.md)
- [S.D. Codified Laws § 21-10-8 Liability of successive owners for continuing nuisance](https://www.frixlaw.com/law-library/statutes/STATE_SD_T21_C10_S21-10-8.md)
- [S.D. Codified Laws § 21-10-9 Persons entitled to maintain civil action against nuisance--Injunction and damages recoverable](https://www.frixlaw.com/law-library/statutes/STATE_SD_T21_C10_S21-10-9.md)
- [S.D. Codified Laws § 21-10-10 House of ill fame declared nuisance--Injunction and abatement](https://www.frixlaw.com/law-library/statutes/STATE_SD_T21_C10_S21-10-10.md)
- [S.D. Codified Laws § 21-10-11 State's attorney or citizen entitled to maintain action for injunction against house of ill fame](https://www.frixlaw.com/law-library/statutes/STATE_SD_T21_C10_S21-10-11.md)
- [S.D. Codified Laws § 21-10-12 Temporary injunction against house of ill fame--Proof required--Notice to defendant](https://www.frixlaw.com/law-library/statutes/STATE_SD_T21_C10_S21-10-12.md)
- [S.D. Codified Laws § 21-10-13 Binding effect on defendant of injunction against house of ill fame--Violation as contempt](https://www.frixlaw.com/law-library/statutes/STATE_SD_T21_C10_S21-10-13.md)
- [S.D. Codified Laws § 21-10-14 Approval required for dismissal of action against house of ill fame--Substitution of parties plaintiff](https://www.frixlaw.com/law-library/statutes/STATE_SD_T21_C10_S21-10-14.md)

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