Areas conducive to disease or crime defined as blighted.

1. Law
2. South Dakota Codified Laws
3. Planning, Zoning and Housing Programs
4. Tax Increment Financing Districts
5. Areas conducive to disease or crime defined as blighted.

11-9-9. Areas conducive to disease or crime defined as blighted.

Any area, including slum area, in which the structures, buildings, or improvements, by reason of:

(1)Dilapidation, age, or obsolescence;

(2)Inadequate provisions for ventilation, light, air, sanitation, or open spaces;

(3)High density of population and overcrowding;

(4)The existence of conditions which endanger life or property by fire and other causes; or

(5)Any combination of such factors;

are conducive to ill health, transmission of disease, infant mortality, juvenile delinquency, or crime, and which is detrimental to the public health, safety, morals, or welfare, is a blighted area.

Source: SL 1978, ch 91, §2 (1).

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