This chapter of South Dakota Codified Laws concerns storage, diversion and irrigation works. Specifically, it provides for excess capacity of works, and availability for beneficial use; headgates or other measuring devices required; repair of works required; inspection of works by chief engineer, order for repair of unsafe works, and repair by chief engineer, costs, filing of written protest, hearing, and liability of chief engineer and state; repair of unsafe works by chief engineer, cost as lien against property, and bidding provisions; breach or repair of works by chief engineer to protect human life, cost as lien against property, other remedies; investigation of dam, variance relating to minimum spillway design requirements, and hearing; application to dams constructed before January 1, 1990, owner and family sole residents, and determination of flood plain; owner's reporting requirements where nonowner establishes habitation within flood plain; privately owned high-hazard dam, where chief engineer and state not obligated to secure safety thereof, and owner's affidavit upon refusal to correct unsafe condition; requirements as to form and content of owner's affidavit; board's acceptance of owner's affidavit and conditions; recording requirements as to owner's affidavit; where privately owned high-hazard dam is subject to action by chief engineer and state; willful damage, destruction, or interference with works prohibited; unauthorized injury to or interference with pier, boom, or dam prohibited; and removal or injury of piles prohibited.
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