Zoning, building permits and septic rules in Home Township, South Dakota

Home Township’s own rules

• Building permitRequired

  Buildings, structures, and land-use changes regulated by the Turner County zoning ordinance on unincorporated land inside Home Township, Turner County, South Dakota.

  • The ordinance does not apply to areas approved for municipal joint zoning jurisdiction.
  • A separate building permit is required for each building, structure, or land-use change.
  • A zoning permit is required before a change of use or occupancy within a building or structure.
  • The Planning Director issues a permit only if the work, plans, and other filed data conform to the ordinance and other pertinent laws and ordinances and Article 25 fees have been paid.

  “It shall be unlawful for any person, firm or corporation to erect, construct, change, enlarge, alter, move, improve, convert, use, occupy or maintain any building, structure or land use regulated by this ordinance or cause the same to be done without first obtaining a separate building permit for each building, structure or land use change from the Office of Planning and Zoning.”

• Local zoningPresent (with conditions)

  Zoning-regulated, unincorporated land inside Home Township, Turner County, South Dakota; the Township is subject to Turner County's zoning system rather than shown by the evidence to administer its own ordinance.

  • Turner County's ordinance applies to unincorporated land, except areas approved for municipal joint zoning jurisdiction.
  • A Turner County Board of Adjustment proceeding considered a proposed Agricultural-to-Rural Residential rezone concerning development in Home Township; the recommendation failed.

  “The regulations and zoning district boundaries set forth in this ordinance shall apply to all unincorporated land within Turner County except those areas which have been approved for municipal joint zoning jurisdiction.”

Rules another office applies inside Home Township

Home Township does not set these itself; the county, a health district or the state does, and they apply to every address inside its limits.

• Who permits septicState (with conditions)

  State on-site wastewater-system standards applicable inside Home Township, Turner County, South Dakota.

  • The quoted construction, addition, and alteration rule applies where public wastewater collection and treatment systems are not available and to systems constructed after February 28, 1975.
  • The state rule requires all on-site wastewater systems, regardless of construction date, not to cause a violation of an existing water-quality standard, cause a health hazard, or fail to meet §§ 74:53:01:08 to 74:53:01:13.
  • For installations receiving human excreta other than a conventional individual on-site wastewater system, plans and specifications must be submitted to the secretary for review and approval before construction; a conventional individual system may be designed and installed without submitting project plans and specifications to the secretary.

  “All on-site wastewater systems designed for the reception and treatment of wastewater from premises including but not limited to homes, trailer courts, commercial establishments, businesses, parks, and institutions where public wastewater collection and treatment systems are not available, constructed after February 28, 1975, shall be constructed, added to, and altered in accordance with this chapter.”

Each answer was extracted from an official source and independently re-checked against that source by a second reviewer. That is an evidence check, not legal advice. Rules change; confirm with the authority before you buy or build.