Property Maintenance in South Dakota (2026)

7 rules on the books across South Dakota, 3 cities and counties. Select a rule to read the full details.

Severity: Few Restrictions · Light Restrictions · Some Restrictions · Significant Restrictions · Heavy Restrictions

Property Blight

Standards for property appearance including peeling paint, broken windows, junk accumulation, and other conditions the city considers blight.

The code official can order Sioux Falls owners to repair, board up, or demolish structures that are dangerous, unsafe…

Minnehaha County bans leaving deteriorated, wrecked, or inoperable property outside an enclosed structure on…

Rapid City's amended Property Maintenance Code, Section 108.1.5, lists thirteen specific conditions, from imminent…

Requirements for maintaining vacant or undeveloped land, including mowing, fencing, and preventing dumping and trespassing.

Rapid City Municipal Code § 8.16.090 makes a mortgagee register any vacant residential property within 10 business days…

Sioux Falls caps weeds and non-woody vegetation at 8 inches on any lot, vacant or occupied, under its amended property…

Your responsibility to clear snow and ice from sidewalks next to your property, including deadlines after a snowfall and penalties for not clearing.

Rapid City property owners must keep abutting sidewalks free of snow and ice at all times, not by a fixed hourly…

Sioux Falls property owners must clear sidewalk snow and ice within 48 hours after a snowfall ends, or the city can…