9-29-16. Police powers of mayor, commissioners, and town marshals.
The mayor of a first or second class municipality having a common council, each member of a board of city commissioners, and each town marshal shall possess, within the jurisdiction of the municipality, all the powers conferred by law upon sheriffs to suppress disorder and keep the peace.
Source: PolC 1877, ch 24, §41; CL 1887, §1066; SL 1890, ch 37, art III, §6; RPolC 1903, §§1187, 1455; SL 1905, ch 170, §1; SL 1913, ch 119, §24; RC 1919, §6279; SDC 1939, §45.1112; SL 1992, ch 60, §2.