Every municipality shall have power to determine what shall be deemed noxious or unhealthful vegetation, fix limits within which the same shall not be permitted to grow, and provide for the destruction thereof and for defraying the cost of the destruction thereof by special assessment against the property upon which the same shall be destroyed.

Source: SL 1907, ch 95; RC 1919, § 6169 (45); SDC 1939, § 45.0201 (33).