Every first or second class municipality shall have power to establish, maintain, and regulate a city jail, house of correction, and workhouse for the confinement and reformation of disorderly persons, vagrants, tramps, and idle persons, and persons convicted of violating any ordinance of the municipality, and appoint necessary jailers and keepers.

Terms Used In South Dakota Codified Laws 9-29-25

  • ordinance: as used in this title shall mean a permanent legislative act of the governing body of a municipality within the limits of its powers. See South Dakota Codified Laws 9-19-1

Source: SL 1890, ch 37, art V, § 1, subdiv 55; RPolC 1903, § 1229, subdiv 55; SL 1913, ch 119, § 53, subdiv 55; RC 1919, § 6170 (8); SDC 1939, § 45.0202 (7); SL 1992, ch 60, § 2.