South Dakota § 31-28-7.1 - Legally abandoned and nonoperational track defined.
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§ 31-28-7.1. Legally abandoned and nonoperational track defined.
For the purpose of § 31-28-7, legally abandoned track is any section of railway track on which formal legal abandonment proceedings have been completed. For the purpose of §§ 31-28-7, 31-28-7.2, and 32-29-5, nonoperational track is any section of railway track on which there has been no traffic for the previous three months and there is no prospect of traffic in the near future.
Source: SL 1981, ch 228, § 3.
Source: official South Dakota text · Last verified 2026-08-27
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