2011 South Dakota Code
Title 6 LOCAL GOVERNMENT GENERALLY
Chapter 12. Home Rule Charters
§6-12-6 Restrictions on power of home rule units.
6-12-6. Restrictions on power of home rule units. The power of a home rule unit does not include the power to:
(1) Enact private or civil law governing civil relationships except as incident to the exercise of an independent county or municipal power;
(2) Define and provide for the punishment of a crime, but this limitation shall not abridge the power of a home rule unit to provide punishment for the violation of ordinances or charter provisions by a fine not exceeding five hundred dollars or by imprisonment not exceeding six months or by both such fine and imprisonment;
(3) Abridge laws relating to elementary and secondary education;
(4) Change assessment practices and procedures relating to ad valorem taxation of property;
(5) Exempt itself from providing the necessary personnel and facilities to perform services required by general law to be performed by a like unit or units of local government;
(6) Deny referendum on ordinances or bylaws provided by chapter 9-19;
(7) Regulate rates or conditions of service of any public utility regulated by the South Dakota Public Utilities Commission.
Source: SL 1974, ch 52, § 6; SL 1975, ch 283, § 56.
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