South Dakota § 45-6B-33.3 - Special, exceptional, critical, or unique land defined.
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§ 45-6B-33.3. Special, exceptional, critical, or unique land defined.
For the purposes of § 45-6B-33, land is special, exceptional, critical, or unique if it possesses one or more of the following characteristics:
(1) The land is so ecologically fragile that, once it is adversely affected, it could not return to its former ecological role in the reasonably foreseeable future;
(2) The land has such a strong influence on the total ecosystem of which it is a part that even temporary effects felt by it could precipitate a system-wide ecological reaction of unpredictable scope or dimension; or
(3) The land has scenic, historic, archaeologic, topographic, geologic, ethnologic, scientific, cultural, or recreational significance.
Source: SL 1989, ch 381, § 2.
Source: official South Dakota text · Last verified 2026-08-27
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