9-21-24. Highway taxes paid to municipal treasurer quarterly--Purposes for which expended.
All highway taxes collected as personal taxes from residents of any municipality and all highway taxes collected on account of real or personal property situated within any municipality by the treasurer of the county in which such municipality is located, shall be turned over quarterly by such treasurer to the treasurer of such municipality to be expended under the direction of its governing body in the improvement of the streets, alleys, highways, or public grounds thereof.
This section shall not apply to taxes levied by the county and state.
Source: SL 1887, ch 147, §1; CL 1887, §1167; RPolC 1903, §1534; RC 1919, §6524; SL 1919, ch 333, §67; SDC 1939, §45.1426.