Every municipality shall have power to compel the owner of any stable, pigsty, privy, sewer, cesspool, or of any unwholesome or nauseous thing or place to cleanse, abate, or remove the same and to regulate the location thereof.

Source: SL 1890, ch 37, art V, § 1, subdiv 68; RPolC 1903, § 1229, subdiv 68; SL 1913, ch 119, § 53, subdiv 68; RC 1919, § 6169 (44); SDC 1939, § 45.0201 (36).